Bøger af Richard F. Burton

An account of the author's journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. It provides a look at the people who inhabited a part of India that was generally off the beaten track in the nineteenth century.

Translated from the 1557 Marburg edition of the author's Warhafftige Historia und Beschreiburg ejner Landtschallte der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newnwelt America gelegen. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1874.

Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."