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E-book Title: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Book Description: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
by Captain Richard F. Burton
Edited by Isabel Burton
(Originally published by the notorious Leonard Smithers, friend and patron of Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde)
The original text from Volumes 1 and 2 of this fascinating travelogue by the famous and erudite Victorian soldier, linguist and explorer, who travelled Arabia in disguise, often posing as a doctor; seventy years before Lawrence of Arabia. Filled with colorful characters :"kayf"or hasish-smoking policemen, fakirs, slaves, courtesans, strange ceremonies, constant aphrodisiac and drug-taking. It has lost none of its power over the years. With period illustrations, maps, and annotated with biographical notes.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was one of the great characters of the 19th century, distinguished in numerous fields. An adventurer, veteran traveller, linguist, soldier, freethinker, hedonist, diplomat, he defies categorisation.
Burton spoke more than two dozen languages, a skill which often allowed him to travel incognito in potentially hostile lands. He served with the East India Company, and was later commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society to travel in northern and eastern Africa - from which travels the current work derives.
Burton's interests in Oriental philosophy, religion, mysticism - and eroticism, led to a series of controversial publications, covertly issued and sometimes suppressed during his lifetime. His most famous translations of eastern texts include the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra.
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