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The highly civilized man
Richard Burton and the Victorian world
By Kennedy, Dane Keith
- ISBN
- 978-0-67401-862-4
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
With this scholarly and eminently readable biography of the famed Victorian Richard Burton, best known in his own era for publishing an account of his traveling to Mecca disguised as a Sufi pilgrim and for translating an uncensored edition of The Arabian Nights , Kennedy (history, George Washington Univ.; Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 ) seeks to alter the perception o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
