FTP, name this man, perhaps best remembered today for his translations of the Kama Sutra and The Arabian Nights into English.
He was thrown out of Oxford after challenging a student who criticized his mustache to a duel. After serving as a subaltern in the Bombay Native Infantry, he learned Gujarati and Marathi before travelling in 1853, in disguise, to the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina. He searched for the source of the Nile along with his partner, John Speke, although there is some controversy over who should be given credit for the discovery of Lake Tanganyika. FTP, name this man, perhaps best remembered today for his translations of the Kama Sutra and The Arabian Nights into English.
He was thrown out of Oxford after challenging a student who criticized his mustache to a duel.
Sir Richard Francis Burton