The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol 1

By: Burton, Sir Richard Francis

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol 1 By Sir Richard Francis Burton Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1727025709
• ISBN13: 9781727025705
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"