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    The Perfumed Garden by Richard E. Burton, Richard Burton (Translator), Captain Sir Burton (Translator)

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    • Pub. Date: July 1992
    • 96pp
    • Sales Rank: 255,352

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      • Pub. Date: July 1992
      • Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Limited
      • Format: Paperback, 96pp
      • Sales Rank: 255,352

      Synopsis

      From 16th-century Arabia, The Perfumed Garden - for the Repose of the Mind is a classic work of Arab erotica offering a uniquely entertaining collection of tales filled with frank and sound advice on sexual relations, accompanied by rare and previously unpublished erotic paintings and reproductions of exquisite tilework and friezes.

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      An explicit, but also consummately witty and graceful celebration of erotica...

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      Biography

      Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was one of the greatest traveler-explorers of history, whose life has recently been chronicled both in biography (Captain Sir Richard Burton) and film (Mountains of the Moon). Famous as the translator of The 1001 Arabian Nights, Burton also searched for the headwaters of the Nile, and was the discoverer of the central lakes of Africa. Orientalist, prolific author, and member of the Royal Geographic Society, he was one of the most remarkable and controversial men of his century.

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      June 29, 2000: The editor of this edition of the classic Arabic has omitted several sections of the original, including the chapter on homosexual practices. In undertaking publishing such frank and open text, it is ironic that he should shy from this , or any section of the original.