Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2024-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385563798
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : sir Richard Francis Burton
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1877
Category : India
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Author : Christopher Ondaatje
Publisher : Toronto ; HarperCollins
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Sindh Revisited is the remarkable story of the author's fascination with the early life of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It is the story of an incredible journey, too - deep into the heart of British India, and the India and Sindh of today. Christopher Ondaatje's Sindh Revisited is the extraordinarily sensitive account of the author's quest to uncover the secrets of the seven years Richard Burton spent in India in the army of the East India Company from 1842 to 1849. "If I wanted to fill the gap in my understanding of Richard Burton, I would have to do something that had never been done before: follow in his footsteps in India...". The journey covered thousands of miles - trekking across deserts where ancient tribes meet modern civilization in the valley of the mighty Indus River. What was it that Burton discovered in India? What was it that changed him from a rebellious, wayward youth into a man of courage, imagination, wisdom and personal power? Through this unique book and the journey it describes, we come nearer than ever before to understanding the mystery of Richard Burton and the devils that drove him.
Author : Victoria Brooks
Publisher : GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780968613719
24 more tales representing the very best in travel writing, plus thoroughly researched guidebook information.
Author : Maggs Bros
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Christopher Ondaatje
Publisher : Long Riders Guild Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590482216
Sindh Revisited is the remarkable story of the author's fascination with the early life of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It is the story of an incredible journey, too - deep into the heart of British India, and the India and Sindh of today. The very name of Sir Richard Burton conjures up images of adventure. His search for the source of the Nile with John Hanning Speke contributed to his being the best-known traveller of the nineteenth century. Burton was an outstanding orientalist, archaeologist, linguist, anthropologist, and a controversial diplomat. Christopher Ondaatje's Sindh Revisited is the extraordinarily sensitive account of the author's quest to uncover the secrets of the seven years Richard Burton spent in India in the army of the East India Company from 1842 to 1849. "If I wanted to fill the gap in my understanding of Richard Burton, I would have to do something that had never been done before: follow in his footsteps in India." The journey covered thousands of miles-trekking across deserts where ancient tribes meet modern civilization in the valley of the mighty Indus River.
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
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Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Folklore
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Author : Anjali Arondekar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0822391023
Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive” does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? Rather than render sexuality’s relationship to the colonial archive through the preferred lens of historical invisibility (which would presume that there is something about sexuality that is lost or silent and needs to “come out”), Arondekar engages sexuality’s recursive traces within the colonial archive against and through our very desire for access. The logic and the interpretive resources of For the Record arise out of two entangled and minoritized historiographies: one in South Asian studies and the other in queer/sexuality studies. Focusing on late colonial India, Arondekar examines the spectacularization of sexuality in anthropology, law, literature, and pornography from 1843 until 1920. By turning to materials and/or locations that are familiar to most scholars of queer and subaltern studies, Arondekar considers sexuality at the center of the colonial archive rather than at its margins. Each chapter addresses a form of archival loss, troped either in a language of disappearance or paucity, simulacrum or detritus: from Richard Burton’s missing report on male brothels in Karáchi (1845) to a failed sodomy prosecution in Northern India, Queen Empress v. Khairati (1884), and from the ubiquitous India-rubber dildos found in colonial pornography of the mid-to-late nineteenth century to the archival detritus of Kipling’s stories about the Indian Mutiny of 1857.