Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton was a 19th-century English explorer, scholar, and orientalist .

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Sir Richard Francis Burton':

  • Churches and Convents of Goa Where he was invalided in 1851. His visit is recorded in "Goa and the Blue Mountains or 6 months of sick leave"
  • Damascus
  • Harar
  • Historic Cairo At the Al Hazar Mosque in old Cairo when he was putting the finishing touches to his Islamic knowledge and Arabic language in preparation for his trip to Mecca
  • Royal Palaces of Abomey
  • Thatta He was appointed to the Sindh Survey during 1843-6. His visit is described in ""Unhappy Valley" and "Sind and the races which inhabit the valley of the Indus"
  • Zanzibar