Captain Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)

“Of the gladdest moments in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands." - Burton

I once had an alarm clock that I found particularly abrasive. Whenever it would sound in the morning, a clanging, jangling double-bell that would vibrate the entire mechanism off of the nightstand and send me close to cardiac arrest, I felt as if I had been assaulted somehow.

Now, imagine waking one morning to discover a Somali spear rammed completely t…