On Jan 22, 2008 11:29 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
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> > Richard Burton (who translated the Kamasutra among other things)
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> I have a complete set of the Burton "Thousand Nights and a Night." I
> like to tell people that the thin volume of "Arabian Nights" one sees
> as a kid are only the "clean" stories, and that Scheherezade did not
> entertain a horny king for three years with kiddie stories - the
I would also recommend his other books about travels in east africa ...
('first footsteps in east africa' is one... and a couple of other books about
the eastern congo and lower nile regions....some out of print...)
He is indeed a bizarre character amid all the gratuitous shooting, maiming and
plunder he also scientifically measures the dimensions of the private parts of
varioustribal groups he meets ... and then while visiting lamu conducts a test
of a local theory that a circumcised woman is better in bed and so on....
theres also the book about Goa and the malabar coast which is quite interesting.
