Harvard University Press, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674018621 9780674018624 [US]

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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 345pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. 2005. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674018621 US

U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, Date: 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Couple short tears to jacket.. 2005. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674018621 9780674018624 [US]

Harvard University Press, UK, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 354 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harvard University Press, UK, 2005. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has slight foxing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton traveled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. One of the great challenges confronting the British in the nineteenth century was to make sense of the multiplicity of peoples and cultures they encountered in their imperial march around the globe. Burton played an important role in this mission. Drawing on his wide-ranging experiences in other lands and intense curiosity about their inhabitants, he conducted an intellectually ...

Harvard University Press, Date: 2005-09-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2005. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674018621 9780674018624 [US]