History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast

Scott Rank

Richard Francis Burton—The Man Who Knew the Most Languages in History

November 21, 2017 ● 7 min

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Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, and contender for the 19th-century's world's most interesting man. He was also functional in dozens of languages and translated monumental works of scholarship from Arabic and Portuguese in English.

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