The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was a polymath of the highest order, a man whose insatiable curiosity and linguistic prowess catapulted him into various realms of adventure, scholarship, and exploration. An English explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat, Burton's life was anything but mundane. He i...