Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa

This CD brings together rare and fascinating works dealing with the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, as witnessed by Victorian-age Europeans. It contains the full text of 31 books, including the 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information.

Other works on this CD include:

Richard Burton Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage of Al-Madinah and Meccah (volume 1 of 2)

Samuel White Baker

The Albert N'Yanza,

Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources

Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

In the Heart of Africa

Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs

The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

Alexander Bulatovich translated from the Russian by Richard Seltzer

Translator's Introduction to Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes

From Entotto to the River Baro

With the Armies of Menelik II

Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle,

Charles Hose and William McDougall Pagan Tribes of Borneo,

Albert Ernest Jenks The Bontoc Igorot [in the Philippines]

David Livingstone

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambezi and its Tributaries and the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864

John Hanning Speke The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

H. Wilfrid Walker Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines

Alfred Wallace The Malay Archipelago (2 volumes)