They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are delightful, fascinating, and fun for fans and first-time readers alike.This beautiful, leather-bound edition collects the classic tales of Arabian Nights in a new, redesigned format. Specially designed end papers, gilded edges, a ribbon bookmark, and other decorative elements enhance the reading experience, while an expert introduction provides new information and context for these well-known stories.Arabian Nights is a compelling look at a long-gone culture and the perfect addition to any home library.Lexile score: 1320L

Nummer 10 i serien Great Journey. Reiseskildring fra Alexandria i 1853.

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. Having spent seven years in India with the army of the East India Company, Burton was familiar with the customs and languages but the journey, travelling from Alexandria in Egypt south to the Red Sea and then from the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, was difficult and his caravan was attacked by bandits. After the conclusion of his journey, Burton briefly served in the Crimean War, was hired by the Royal Geographical Society to explore Africa's east coast and was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika. Later in his life, he would join the Diplomatic Service, serving in Fernando Po, Santos and Trieste among others. This famous account describes a journey forbidden to non-Muslims made by one of the great travellers, adventurers, writers and linguists of the Victorian age.

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. This book on improving lovemaking skills uses excerpts from the translation, authentic Indian illustrations and the latest in paper-engineering techniques.

The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the next evening's entertainment and thereby save her life. Among them are some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling, including the "Sinbad the Sailor," "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." This collection features more than twenty stories, in the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton, published between 1884 and 1886, and full-colour illustrations by Renata Fucikova and Jindra Capek. The Arabian Nights is one of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.

DEN ILLUSTRERTE KAMASUTRA ANANGA-RANGA DEN DUFTENDE HAGEN ØSTENS KLASSISKE KJÆRLIGHETSFORTELLINGER Oversettelser av SIR RICHARD BURTON og F.F. Arbuthnot Redigert og presentert av Charles Fowkes Norsk tekst ved Venke Agnes Engh Amorin

New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton by Dr. John Wallen provides exactly that: a fresh perspective from which to view one of the leading explorers and writers of the Victorian age. Burton has frequently been vilified by postcolonial writers as somehow an archetypal representative of the colonial mentality that reached out to grab an often unknown world with its all-encompassing ""imperial eyes"". On the other hand, hardly any figure of the period has proved so enduringly popular with average readers and enthusiasts of the Victorian age. In this scholarly book, Dr. Wallen seeks to understand this dichotomy, tracing it back to Burton's creation of his own popular myth in his life and writings: a process of self aggrandizement that has been complicated by Edward Said's more recent ambiguity on the figure of Burton in his seminal work Orientalism. In this new and improved second edition of New Perspectives, prominence is given to Burton's own myth making and his little known activities as a member of the secretive Victorian men's club known as the ""Cannibal Club"". A Foreword is provided by Professor Dane Kennedy of George Washington University.

The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation of the "Kama Sutra" was celebrated as a literary event of the highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilisation as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the "Kama Sutra" has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature. Written with frankness and unassuming candour, the "Kama Sutra" remains one of the most readable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry and sexology, it is an indispensable key to understanding Indian culture.

A peculiar can be defined as something that 'has eccentric or individual variations to the general or predicted pattern'. And, as it turns out, London is overflowing with them. This pocket-sized book will accompany you around the capital, guiding you from the tent-shaped tomb designed for Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton by his widow, Isabel Arundel Gordon; to what may be the last surviving porter's rest in London; to a stone niche by a long-demolished foundling hospital where almost 15, 000 infants were discarded over the course of the 18th century.Sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic, often amusing and always unexpected, these so-called 'peculiars' bring colour to the fabric of London. Whether you are a lifelong resident or a visitor passing through, London Peculiars is guaranteed to lead you on an adventure.

Kama Sutra, elskovskunstens klassiker, gir mangfoldige råd om dagliglivets viderverdigheter, om knep for å forføre en kvinne, om hvordan kvinnen kan kapre en rik elsker, få maksimalt ut av ham og bli kvitt ham igjen.

A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights ), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the man himself.

London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade; for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity; while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!

Burton and Swinburne return in a new wildly imaginative steampunk adventure, and this time they're facing their greatest foe... Leicester Square, London. Spring Heeled Jack has returned, and he is intent on one thing: hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton is experiencing one hallucination after another;

The Beast has been summoned. History will be unmade. Freshly knighted by King George V for discovering the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Francis Burton has been made an agent of the Crown. His mission: solve a series of high profile disappearances and - even more astonishing - locate the spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu el Yezdi. Burton and Swinburne are back and fighting for their very existence...

The Fabulous Riverboat er en science fiction-roman av den amerikanske forfatteren Philip José Farmer, den andre boken i Riverworld-serien. En kortere versjon av romanen ble serieført i magasinet If som "The Felled Star" (juli og august 1967) og "The Fabulous Riverboat" (juni og august 1971). Med avgang fra bedriftene til kaptein Sir Richard Francis Burton i den første Riverworld-romanen, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, følger The Fabulous Riverboat innsatsen til Samuel Clemens for å finne en måte å bygge en elvebåt på den metallfattige Riverworld. I prosessen konfronterer han en viking fra det tiende århundre, blir venn med et medlem av en annen hominid-art og inngår en urolig allianse med kong John Lackland.

er en science fiction-roman av den amerikanske forfatteren Philip José Farmer, den tredje i rekken av Riverworld-bøker. År har gått på Riverworld. Hele nasjoner har reist seg, og voldsomme kriger har blitt utkjempet – alt siden jordens døde fant seg opp igjen i deres fantastiske nye hjemverden. Likevel er sannheten om Ethicals, de mektige ingeniørene i dette mystiske «etterlivet», ukjent. Men et merkelig tverrsnitt av menneskeheten er fast bestemt på å endre den situasjonen. . . for enhver pris. Den uforferdede oppdageren Sir Richard Francis Burton leder den mest bemerkelsesverdige oppdagelsesreisen han noen gang har foretatt. Hot i hælene er Samuel Clemens, King John of England og Cyrano de Bergerac. Ansporet av løftet om ultimate svar, kartlegger de en kurs over det enorme polarhavet – og mot det fantastiske tårnet som ruver over det. Men å komme dit vil være mer enn halve kampen. For døden på Riverworld har blitt kjølig endelig. . .