People from Torquay - Agatha Christie, Richard Francis Burton, Peter Cook, Lily Cole, Tony Pulis, Percy Fawcett, Miranda Hart, Kristian Digby (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Agatha Christie, Richard Francis Burton, Peter Cook, Lily Cole, Tony Pulis, Percy Fawcett, Miranda Hart, Kristian Digby, Roger Deakins, Keedie Babb, Jeffrey Tolchard, Edward Hutton, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Eileen Nearne, Colin Lee, Brian Stonehouse, Chris Lintott, Ernest Knapman, Robbie Herrera, Ian Henderson, Richard Gordon Wakeford, Darren Bastow, Andrew Henderson, Katherine Roberts, Darren Cann, Ray Tolchard, Kevin Henderson, Edward Lee, Emily Perry, Martin Worthington, Roger Moylan-Jones, Sid Cann, Kain Bond, Haydn Morgan, Mike Sangster, Arthur Leyland Harrison, Andrew Pugh, Leon Hapgood, William Jeffrey Prowse, Sophie Long, Jamie Bennellick, Andrew Hele, John Evans, Jack Casley, Ronald Hilton, Maurice Cox, Roger Tolchard, Emily Biggs, Lauren Pope, Bradley Beattie, Cliff Balsom, Ian Bastow, Natasha Mealey, George Northcott, Graham Bond, Nick Stringer, Natalie Melmore, Sara Gomer. Excerpt: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include travelling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (also commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after Andrew Lang's abridgement), bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English, and journeying with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans led by Africa's greatest explorer guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay, utilizing route information by Indian and Omani merchants who traded in the region, ...