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Description: "Burton the sexual anthropologist is the chief concern of 'The Erotic Traveler,' though his adventurous life is also sketched in by Edward Leigh, who, in the form of a continuing narrative, presents Burton's writings on strange rites and sex customs around the world. The remarkable shape of women's breasts in Sind, the various methods of creating eunuchs, and the devices employed in the East to prolong the act of love were all of absorbing interest to Burton. He wrote with authority about the anatomical anomalies of Somali prostitutes in Aden or of pederasty in the male brothels of Karachi. This fascinating book, like its central figure, moves from India and Africa to North and South America, and reveals one of the more intriguing facets of a multifaceted yet singular man"--dust jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1993.
Call number: 635932
Creator: Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890)

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ISBN

1566191106

9781566191104

Provenance

Gift of Edwards Metcalf, 1992.

Dimensions

22 cm

Associated people

Leigh, Edward,

Metcalf, Edwards H.

Associated organizations

Barnes & Noble Books,

G.P. Putnam's Sons,

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