Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa [CD-ROM]

Richard Burton (Author), Samuel White Baker (Author), Alexander Bulatovich (Author), Charles Darwin (Author), David Livingstone (Author), John Speke (Author), Alfred Wallace (Author), Richard Seltzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2002

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)

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: B & R Samizdat Express (April 20, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0931968097
• ISBN-13: 978-0931968099
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa (CD-ROM)

Take a good look at the map that Amazon displays with this item, because you won't find it on the CD. Although this CD does contain a large number of works by Richard Francis Burton, including his entire, unexpurgated translation of Sheherazade's famous tales, all of it is available FREE OF CHARGE from the Project Gutenberg site. The seller has simply copied a lot of downloaded texts--warts and all (and some of the warts are doozies) to a CDR, slapped on a very plain label, and sat back to collect the profits. You can do the same and save yourself 25 bucks.