CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON : The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to T
by Edward Rice
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0060973943
- ISBN 13
- 9780060973940
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About This Item
New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New. First Edition, 1st Printing. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong w/light edge rubs and faint creasings to lower front. PO gift inscription to front cover verso, and faint creasing to endpaper. Biography of ledgendary Victorian English scholar-adventurer, translator, writer, and soldier, Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1831 - 1921). Known for his travels and explorations n Asia and Africa, an extraordinary grasp of languages and cultures, and, in particular, for his translations of the Kama Sutra, and of the One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) as well as discovery of Lake Tanganyika. Strong copy.
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- Title
- CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON : The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to T
- Author
- Edward Rice
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060973943
- ISBN 13
- 9780060973940
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Biography, History, Explorations, Kama Sutra, Arabian Nights, Lake Tanganyika
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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