description: This CD brings together rare and fascinating works dealing with the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, as witnessed by Victorian-age Europeans. It contains the full text of 31 books, including the 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information. Other works on this CD include: Richard Burton Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage of Al-Madinah and Meccah (volume 1 of 2) Samuel White Baker The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon In the Heart of Africa Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Alexander Bulatovich translated from the Russian by Richard Seltzer Translator's Introduction to Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes From Entotto to the River Baro With the Armies of Menelik II Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Hose and William McDougall Pagan Tribes of Borneo, Albert Ernest Jenks The Bontoc Igorot [in the Philippines] David Livingstone Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambezi and its Tributaries and the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864 John Hanning Speke The Discovery of the Source of the Nile H. Wilfrid Walker Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines Alfred Wallace The Malay Archipelago (2 volumes)
language: English
title: Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa
titlecomplete: Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa
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publisher: B & R Samizdat Express