Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton (b. 1821–d. 1890) was a prodigiously gifted polymath who knew some twenty-five languages, wrote more than twenty books about his journeys through distant lands, introduced the Kama Sutra and other exotic works of erotica to English readers, and produced a controversial and inf...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199799558-0162 |