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Arabian Nights (Bath Treasury of Children's Classics) by Sir Richard Francis Burton
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bath Classics
Collins Classics - Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'So he rose and lighted one lamp after another, till he had lighted the whole eighty and the palace seemed to dance with brilliancy.' Beginning with the legend of King Shahryr, whose anger at his queen's infidelity le ...Show more
Eyewitness Accounts: Pilgrimage to Meccah by Burton Sir Richard
$26.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Eyewitness Accounts
The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman from what is now north-western Pakistan or Afghanistan. Having spent seven years with the army of the East India Company, Bur ...Show more
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Richard Burton
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in o ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
$47.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the beloved tales of Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Burton. They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. The ...Show more
The Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for ...Show more
The Arabian Nights: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Collector's Library) by Sir Richard Francis Burton
$59.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Full of mischief, valour, ribaldry, and romance, "The Arabian Nights" has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved Shahrazad whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld ...Show more
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana in Pop-up by Sir Richard Burton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Humour
"The Kama Sutra", the ancient Hindu treatise on the art of love, was first translated into English in 1883 by the explorer Sir Richard Burton. This book on improving lovemaking skills uses excerpts from the translation, authentic Indian illustrations and the latest in paper-engineering techniques.
The Richard Burton Diaries by Richard Burton & Chris Williams (ed.)
$49.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we familiarly "know" as acclaimed actor, international film star, and jet-set celebrity. From his private, handwritten pages there emerges a different person - a family man, a father, a husband, a man often troubled and always ...Show more
The Thousand and One Nights by Richard Francis Burton
$160.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In the late 1920s, the art publisher H. Piazza produced a twelve-volume version of The 1001 Nights that was one of the most beautiful ever made. It included splendid illustrations by Mohammed Racim and wonderful miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Today, Assouline is publishing an abridged version of this ...Show more
To the Holy Shrines (Great Journeys) by Richard Burton
$14.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Disguised as a Persian dervish, Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) set out to become the first Christian to penetrate the Muslim shrines of Medina and Mecca - a reckless stunt that would have resulted in his being executed if discovered. Endlessly observant, amused, boastful and engaging, Burton here descri ...Show more
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