Лучшие книги Ричарда Фрэнсиса Бертона

Ричард Бертон - автор этого фундаментального исследования, путешествуя по странам Ближнего Востока, Африки и Америки, собрал множество интересных сведений о древнем оружии. В своей книге он рассказывает о происхождении и многовековом совершенствовании оружия, царем которого с незапамятных времен является меч.

This delightful selection of tales from The Thousand and One Nights are masterpieces of the art of storytelling.
The beautiful Scheherazade saved her life by entertaining the brutal King Shahryar with these tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, terror and passion. Here are the famous adventures of' Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' and 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp', as well as less familiar stories, such as 'Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma', a charming early version of The Taming of the Shrew.
The tales have their origins in the cultures of India, Persia and Arabia, and this edition, based on Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation, gives the reader all the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic.
Exotic, bawdy and humorous, these stories-within-stories continue to captivate readers as they have done for centuries.
Adapted from Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation by Jack Zipes.

Ричард Бёртон — автор этого фундаментального исследования, путешествуя по странам Ближнего Востока, Африки и Америки, собрал множество интересных сведений о древнем оружии. В своей книге он рассказывает о происхождении и многовековом совершенствовании оружия, царем которого с незапамятных времен является меч.

One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data.

Первый перевод на русский язык поэмы Ричарда Бёртона - известного английского путешественника, этнографа, дипломата и переводчика XIX в. Р.Бёртон снискал известность и славу как первооткрыватель оз. Танганьика, а также как человек, ознакомивший европейскую публику с известным арабским литературным памятником "Тысяча и одна ночь".
Поэма КАСЫДА - одно из немногих оригинальных поэтических произведений Бёртона - проникнута философскими размышлениями автора. Своеобразие поэме придает восточный колорит, который явился отражением личных впечатлений и наблюдений, почерпнутых Бёртоном во время его пребывания на мусульманском Востоке, и в неменьшей степени отражением его пристрастия к восточной культуре и литературе.

Sir Richard Burton gibt sich 1853 bei seiner Ankunft in Kairo als britischer Untertan afghanischer Herkunft aus, um das Land als Europ?er inkognito erforschen zu k?nnen. Er arbeitet zun?chst als Arzt und besch?ftigt sich intensiv mit den kulturellen Sitten und den religi?sen und orthodoxen Regeln des Landes als Vorbereitung seiner bevorstehenden gro?en Reise. Am 25. Juli erreicht Burton Medina, das er erkundet und ausf?hrlich beschreibt. Nicht zuletzt Dank seines Freundes und treuen Begleiters Muhammad Al-Basyuni gelingt es Burton das Innere zahlreicher Heiligt?mer zu betreten und alle Riten der Hadsch zu vollziehen.

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest vampire classics of all time: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Th?ophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire (Jan Neruda) Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer) The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare) Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (Alice and Claude Askew) The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson) Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson) Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright) I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner) The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck) Vampires of Venus (Anthony Pelcher) Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce) Isle of the Undead (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach) Four Wooden Stakes (Victor Rowan) Each Man Kills (Victoria Glad)

Elementary (A2) Sheherezade stopped. 'Well?' said the sultan. 'What happened next? What was behind the door?' 'Sir, there's light in the sky,' said Sheherezade. 'You're going to kill me now! 'But you can't stop there. You have to finish the story.' Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows many wonderful stories. Night after night, she tells them to Sultan Shahriar. She always stops in an exciting place, so he wants to hear the end of the story. She knows stories for a thousand and one nights. The Arabic name for these stories (Alf Leila wa Leila) means The Thousand and One Nights. The stories in this book are very different. Some are sad and some are funny. Some are exciting. We meet many interesting people - an unhappy young man, a clever servant girl, a boy judge, a stupid barber and forty bad thieves. The stories aren't new, but you can find the same people in the world today - a young man in love, a good friend or a clever young boy.

Richard Francis Burton war einer der gr??en Abenteurer aller Zeiten. Er sprach ?ber 30 Sprachen, hatte als Muslim verkleidet Mekka und Medina besucht und auf einer sensationellen Expedition zu den Quellen des Nils den Tanganjikasee entdeckt. Als ihm 1877 vom in finanzielle N?te geratenen Vizek?nig von ?gypten der Auftrag erteilt wurde, im legend?ren biblischen Land Midian nach Gold f?r die Schatzkammern zu suchen, witterte Burton die Chance auf neue Abenteuer und Ruhm - Burtons Bericht bietet dem Leser und heutigen Reisenden ein faszinierendes Bild eines Landes, in dem Gold gesucht, stattdessen aber unbezahlbare landschaftliche und kulturelle Sch?tze gefunden wurden, die heute noch im Nordwesten Saudi-Arabiens, Burtons sagenhaftem Midian, zu finden sind.

Drawing from the famous translation of Sir Richard Burton, «The Arabian Nights» is a selection of the voluminous «One Thousand and One Nights», a collection of ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian literature. Many readers will recognize the more famous of these tales: «Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp», «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves» and «The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor». These exciting and mystical tales can be found in this uncensored and authoritatively noted edition along with thirty-five additional stories.

This carefully crafted ebook: «Kama Sutra – Annotated (The original english translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is the unabridged original english translation (with all the comments and annotations) made by Sir Richard Francis Burton and first published in 1883. The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted poetry verses. «Kama» which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual pleasure, and «sutra» literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not just an exclusive sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life. Content Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra has 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into 7 parts. According to the Burton translation, the contents of the book are structured into 7 parts like the following: 1. General remarks Chapters on contents of the book, three aims and priorities of life, the acquisition of knowledge, conduct of the well-bred townsman, reflections on intermediaries who assist the lover in his enterprises (5 chapters). 2.

"I have entitled this account of my summer's tour through Al-Hijaz, a Personal Narrative, and I have laboured to make its nature correspond with its name, simply because «it is the personal that interests mankind.» Many may not follow my example." Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccahis the first detailed and informative account of hajj pilgrimage from the eyes of a western explorer and ethnographer. Spread over 3 volumes it is a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise and provides a thorough insight into the lives and customs of the Arab world. CONTENTS Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (In 3 Vols.) Biography and Further Readings: Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life (Vol.1&2) Arabian Society in the Middle Ages Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia &t;br/&t; &t;br/&t; &t;br/&t;

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton's exhaustive translation of «The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night», more commonly known as «The Arabian Nights». The story of «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves» is one of the more popular of those found in «The Arabian Nights» collection. It tells the story of Ali Baba who while chopping wood in the forest discovers the secret hiding place for the treasure of a band of forty thieves. The treasure is sealed in a magic cave which opens by the command «open simsim», or «open sesame». This classic tale is presented here in this edition in its original and unexpurgated form.

The Vampires prowl through the dark nights – hunting and baying for blood. And when they smell the human flesh nothing can stop them from transforming into mysterious, menacing and frightening creatures. Reawaken the fear, the dread and the obsession with the creatures of the night through the stories of the gruesome hunt and the hunted with this meticulously edited collection of the greatest vampire classics of all time: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Th?ophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire (Jan Neruda) Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer) The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare) Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (Alice and Claude Askew) The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson) Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson) Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright) I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner) The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck) Vampires of Venus (Anthony Pelcher) Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce) Isle of the Undead (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach) Four Wooden Stakes (Victor Rowan) Each Man Kills (Victoria Glad)

The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton's exhaustive translation of «The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night», more commonly known as «The Arabian Nights». The story of Aladdin, likely the most famous of all the tales of «The Arabian Nights», is the story of a poor young boy who is recruited by the sorcerer Maghreb to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a booby-trapped magic cave. When Aladdin is trapped in the cave he discovers the magical powers of a ring lent to him by the sorcerer and subsequently of the magical powers of the lamp, which brings him great fortune. «Aladdin and the Magic Lamp» is presented here in this edition in Burton’s original and unexpurgated form.

This carefully crafted ebook: «Kama Sutra – Annotated (The original english translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is the unabridged original english translation (with all the comments and annotations) made by Sir Richard Francis Burton and first published in 1883. The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted poetry verses. «Kama» which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual pleasure, and «sutra» literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not just an exclusive sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life. Content Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra has 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into 7 parts. According to the Burton translation, the contents of the book are structured into 7 parts like the following: 1. General remarks Chapters on contents of the book, three aims and priorities of life, the acquisition of knowledge, conduct of the well-bred townsman, reflections on intermediaries who assist the lover in his enterprises (5 chapters). 2.

Written by Vatsyayana sometime between the 1st and 6th centuries A.D., «Kama Sutra» is literally translated as «Aphorisms on Love.» Intended as a manual for not only love and intimacy but also a treatise on the politics and customs of relationships between men and women. The «Kama Sutra», while sought after for its instruction on sexual positions, is much more than just a guide for lovemaking. Presented here is the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton.