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The Arabs : a short history
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The Arabs : a short history
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Based on the author's History of the Arabs, published by Macmillan and company, London, 1937. Condensed by Mr. Byron Dexter in collaboration with the author.
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The erotic traveler
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"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.
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History of industrial gravure printing up to 1920
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"Though there are many histories of printing, in all languages, they deal principally with the printed product. The history of the development of modern printing techniques tends to have been neglected by the historians of technology. Very rare are publications on historical investigations into the technical development of printing processes, printing presses or printing surfaces. In this revised and expanded English version of his book, originally published in German, the author, who is Technical Development Manager to the London Daily Telegraph, provides a fascinating account of the early development of one of the three major printing processes, gravure or intaglio -- industrial gravure, that is to say, as distinct from artists' printmaking"--From dust jacket.
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Lawrence : the uncrowned king of Arabia
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"T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia," began his role in World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped the Arabs gain their freedom after five hundred years of domination by the Ottoman Turks, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity." "A brilliant propagandist, rhetorician, and manipulator, Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him, thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity." "But who was the real man behind the masks? Desert explorer and Arab scholar Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle of appearances. Retracing many of Lawrence's desert Journeys, he gained startling new insights into his character. The result is biography combining the techniques of the detective story, travelogue, epic history, and high drama."--Jacket.
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Lawrence : the uncrowned king of Arabia
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"T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia," began his role in World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped the Arabs gain their freedom after five hundred years of domination by the Ottoman Turks, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity." "A brilliant propagandist, rhetorician, and manipulator, Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him, thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity." "But who was the real man behind the masks? Desert explorer and Arab scholar Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle of appearances. Retracing many of Lawrence's desert Journeys, he gained startling new insights into his character. The result is biography combining the techniques of the detective story, travelogue, epic history, and high drama."--Jacket.
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The other Livingstone
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"Much has been written about David Livingstone, but never before have his relationships with William Cotton, Oswell, László Magyar, Silva Porto and Candido Cardozo, and their stories, been fully told. These four men all played crucial roles in Livingstone's exploration and discoveries. In many instances his claims to have been the first European to make certain discoveries can now be shown to be untrue. His attempts to play down the contribution of these four men, who were accomplished explorers in their own right, nearly succeeded, vide all the published biographies of Livingstone which pay hardly any attention to them. Using material lost for years in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Judith Listowel has pieced together one of the most fascinating stories of 19th century intrigue and rivalry. It is the story of what took place behind he scenes in Africa, away from the rapturous public gaze of the Victorians. The book is illustrated with many photographs, drawings and maps, enabling the reader to find his way about the maze of the explorers' cartographic guesswork, and to sense the disappointment of failure and the passion of discovery"--dust jacket.
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