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Product Description: Vikram and the Vampire, translated and adapted by Sir Richard Burton, is a group of tales told by a baital (not really a vampire but a kind of spirit who can inhabit dead bodies) to King Vikram (described by Burton as the King Arthur of India)...read more
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9781532743023 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 19, 2016), cover price $6.68 | About this edition: Vikram and the Vampire, translated and adapted by Sir Richard Burton, is a group of tales told by a baital (not really a vampire but a kind of spirit who can inhabit dead bodies) to King Vikram (described by Burton as the King Arthur of India).
Product Description: A detailed description of the author's travels into the interior of what was then unknown country. His observations and reflections provide a thrilling insight into the mind of a dedicated explorer in the colonial age. That he succeeded is a testament to his knowledge of Arabic, his patience and a familiarity with the temperaments and moral attitudes of the people along with the ability to conceal his actual identity...read more
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9781530716074 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 24, 2016), cover price $9.33 | About this edition: A detailed description of the author's travels into the interior of what was then unknown country.
Product Description: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the âArabian Nightsâ) â a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8thâ13th centuries) â by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821â1890)...read more
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9781530582976 | Ant sup edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 16, 2016), cover price $10.15 | About this edition: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the âArabian Nightsâ) â a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8thâ13th centuries) â by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821â1890).
9781530583102 | Ant sup edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 16, 2016), cover price $13.58 | About this edition: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the âArabian Nightsâ) â a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8thâ13th centuries) â by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821â1890).
9781530583249 | Ant sup edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 16, 2016), cover price $9.33 | About this edition: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the âArabian Nightsâ) â a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8thâ13th centuries) â by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821â1890).
9781530583270 | Ant sup edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 16, 2016), cover price $11.13 | About this edition: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the âArabian Nightsâ) â a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8thâ13th centuries) â by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821â1890).
9781530583461 | Ant sup edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 16, 2016), cover price $11.05 | About this edition: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the âArabian Nightsâ) â a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8thâ13th centuries) â by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821â1890).
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Product Description: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain...read more
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9781519462756 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 23, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
9781434617804 | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434619495 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007), cover price $26.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
Product Description: The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman from what is now north-western Pakistan or Afghanistan...read more
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9781445644219 | Amberley Pub Plc, March 19, 2015, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman from what is now north-western Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Product Description: I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West. The more adventurous Abyssinian travellers, Salt and Stuart, Krapf and Isenberg, Barker and Rochet,ânot to mention divers Roman Catholic Missioners,âattempted Harar, but attempted it in vain...read more
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9780559079658 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780559079788 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9781508616993 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 24, 2015, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West.
9780559079696 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780559079740 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
Product Description: IN the autumn of 1852, through the medium of my excellent friend, the late General Monteith, I offered my services to the Royal Geographical Society of London, for the purpose of removing that opprobrium to modern adventure, the huge white blot which in our maps still notes the Eastern and the Central regions of Arabia...read more
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9781505316216 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 2, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: IN the autumn of 1852, through the medium of my excellent friend, the late General Monteith, I offered my services to the Royal Geographical Society of London, for the purpose of removing that opprobrium to modern adventure, the huge white blot which in our maps still notes the Eastern and the Central regions of Arabia.
9781142165222 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2010, cover price $39.75 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
9781426417085 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007), cover price $29.75 | About this edition: EDITED BY HIS WIFE, ISABEL BURTON
9781426416200 | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $30.75 | About this edition: EDITED BY HIS WIFE, ISABEL BURTON
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9781843401599 | Ltf pop edition (Collins & Brown, October 7, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 'The Kama Sutra', the ancient Hindu treatise on the art of love, was first translated into English in 1883 by the explorer Sir Richard Burton.
Product Description: Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse...read more
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9781500456849, titled "The Kama Sutra" | Createspace Independent Pub, July 9, 2014, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vatsyayana.
Product Description: This work by Randolph B. Marcy (1812-87), who retired from the US Army as a brigadier general in 1881, was first published in 1859. Reissued here is the 1863 edition, edited with notes by the British explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821-90)...read more
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9781108075152 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2014, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This work by Randolph B.
Product Description: âThe history of the sword,â the author writes in his introduction, âis the history of humanity.â For centuries, the sword has been a symbol of power, strength, liberty, and courage. In the Middle Ages, the image of a sword was used to signify the word of God...read more
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9781626364011 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, January 7, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: âThe history of the sword,â the author writes in his introduction, âis the history of humanity.
Product Description: The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851-2...read more
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9781108041980 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 29, 2011), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The British explorer Sir Richard F.
9781108041997 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 29, 2011), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The British explorer Sir Richard F.
9781108042000 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 29, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: The British explorer Sir Richard F.
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9781108042017 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 29, 2011, cover price $130.00
Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) is well known for his colourful career, recorded in numerous books and articles, as a diplomat, explorer and ethnographer. In 1861 he was appointed consul to Fernando Po (now Bioko) in Equatorial Guinea, remaining there for four years until he was transferred to Brazil. These volumes collate the expeditions and ethnographic observations made during his time there. In his preface, Burton writes that the 'plain truth' about the African has not been told in Britain, declaring that English occupation of West Africa has proved 'a remarkable failure'. First published in 1876, Volume 1 records Burton's landing at the Gaboon River and includes geographical details, information about local tribes, and reports of journeys to Sanga Tanga and up the Gaboon River to its source. Burton also writes about a 'specimen day' with the reputed Fán cannibals and includes a chapter on gorillas.
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9781108031363 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 25, 2011), cover price $59.99
9781108031349 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 2, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) is well known for his colourful career, recorded in numerous books and articles, as a diplomat, explorer and ethnographer.
9781108031356 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 2, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) is well known for his colourful career, recorded in numerous books and articles, as a diplomat, explorer and ethnographer.
9781426419942 | Bibliobazaar, October 11, 2007, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: The yellow fever of the last year, which wiped out in two months one-third of the white colony—more exactly, 78 out of 250—had not reappeared, but the conditions for its re-appearance were highly favourable.
First published in 1872, this two-volume memoir by explorer, ethnographer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century - the location of the source of the Nile. The pair arrived in Zanzibar in December 1856, and Burton made detailed notes on his surroundings which were developed into Volume 1, which focuses on 'The City and the Island', including Burton's journey preparations and arrival. He discusses the significance of the 'Nile question' as well as recording geographical, botanical, meteorological and ethnographic observations. The manuscript on which the book is based, entrusted to an East India Company official for dispatch to the Royal Geographical Society, was initially misplaced, thus delaying publication by twelve years, but enabling Burton to add a chapter on Speke's achievement and untimely death.
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9781108031486 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 25, 2011), cover price $99.99
9781108031462 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 2, 2011), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: First published in 1872, this two-volume memoir by explorer, ethnographer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century - the location of the source of the Nile.
9781108031479 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 2, 2011, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: First published in 1872, this two-volume memoir by explorer, ethnographer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century - the location of the source of the Nile.
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9781108030298 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 21, 2011), cover price $74.99
9781108030274 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 19, 2011), cover price $39.99
9781108030281 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 19, 2011), cover price $39.99
Product Description: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, writer and ethnologist best known for his travels in Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century. This is his account, originally published in 1863, of his mission to investigate mortality in West Africa...read more
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9781108030342 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 8, 2011), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, writer and ethnologist best known for his travels in Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, writer and ethnologist best known for his travels in Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century. This is his account, originally published in 1863, of his mission to investigate mortality in West Africa. In Volume 1 he describes his departure from England, with accounts of the landscapes, buildings, cultures and cuisines that characterized his journey from Liverpool through Madeira and Tenerife, before recalling his first impressions of Africa on arriving in Bathurst on the Eastern Cape. In the final two chapters he recounts his findings in Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas, revealing how the positioning of settlements exposed their inhabitants to disease, adverse weather conditions, poverty and malnourishment. Set within a fascinating historical, political and cultural context, and written in vivid detail, Burton's memoirs remain of great interest and relevance to anthropologists, historians and geographers today.
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9781108030526 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 18, 2011), cover price $34.99
9781108030519 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 17, 2011), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, writer and ethnologist best known for his travels in Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century.
Product Description: Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens of works and more than one hundred articles...read more
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9781108030311 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 18, 2011, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842.
9781108030328 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 18, 2011), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842.
Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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9781426477218 | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $24.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781426477799 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007), cover price $26.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781419168567 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Unwilling, however, to risk the safety of the gunboat, where nothing was to be expected beyond what we had seen at El-'Akabah, I resolved, after waiting half an hour, not to land.
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9781428036857 | Indypublish.Com, October 28, 2006, cover price $55.99 | About this edition: The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi.
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9781459076556 | General Books, March 15, 2010, cover price $15.10
Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
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9781104531652 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 15, 2009, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
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9781104374648 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Product Description: In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women... And Vatsyayana, poet, esthete and lover thought they should have some instruction for doing what they like to do best. Hence the Kama Sutra, the ancient manual of love, with descriptions ranging from the ninety-nine positions for sex, to instructions for hitting your lover in moments of passion and the appropriate sound to make with each swat, all the way to securing a wife...read more
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9781595948182 | Wingspan Pr, February 28, 2009, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women.
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