CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD BURTON: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West
by Edward Rice
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- 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, 2nd Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Remainder Mark to lower text block. 1991 First Edition, 2nd Printing. Softcover/NF; sound w/light edge wear. Biography of British scholar-explorer and Orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890), first European to discover Lake Tanganyika, penetrate hitherto forbidden Muslim cities, and both discovered and translated the Kama Sutra, and the Arabian Nights to the West. 664 pgs. 664 pgs, in 31 chapters.
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- Title
- CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD BURTON: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West
- Author
- Edward Rice
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060973943
- ISBN 13
- 9780060973940
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 664
- Keywords
- Biography, History, Britain, Explorers, /Kama Sutra, Arabian Nights
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Autobiography; Memoir;
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