William George Browne

William George Browne (born July 25, 1768, London, England—died June 1813, Iran) was a British traveler in Central Africa and the Middle East and the first European to describe Darfur, a Muslim sultanate of Billād al-Sūdān, now part of Sudan. Browne was forcibly detained in Darfur (1793–96) and published his account of the event in Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria (1799, enlarged ed. 1806). In 1812 he began a journey from England to the...