“The history of the sword,” the author writes in his introduction, “is the history of humanity.” For centuries, the sword has been a symbol of power, strength, liberty, and courage. In the Middle Ages, the image of a sword was used to signify the word of God. Nearly every culture in history has forged blades from stone or steel to fight in times of battle and protect in times of peace.In this groundbreaking work, Richard Francis Burton, explorer, translator, scholar, and swordsman, draws on a wealth of linguistic, archaeological, and literary sources to trace the millennia-old history of the sword. From its earliest days as a charred, sharpened stick to the height of craftsmanship in the modern era, the sword has been the weapon of choice for warriors of all stripes.In eloquent, captivating prose, Burton describes:  Dirks  Daggers  Knives  Sabers  Cutlasses  The origin of the weapon  The weapons of the age of wood  The Copper Age of weapons  The Iron Age of weapons  The sword in ancient Egypt  The sword in ancient Greece  And moreNearly three hundred line drawings enhance Burton’s richly detailed text. Any reader of history or student of weaponry will find this book a fascinating, highly enjoyable read.

The book of the sword

Sports & Outdoors

Richard Francis Burton

Individual Sports

Barnes&Noble Books

The Arabian Nights

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo; Volume 2

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration

History

World

Scholarly Press

An engrossing record of explorations of central Africa's lake regions. Acute observations on village life, native character, religion and government.

The Lake Regions of Central Africa

Africa

Dover Publications

The yellow fever of the last year which wiped out in two months one-third of the white colony¿more exactly 78 out of 250¿had not reappeared but the conditions for its re-appearance were highly favourable.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

Travel

BiblioBazaar

The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he first gained celebrity for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, conducted under the disguise of a pilgrim. He remains famous for his translation (with the British orientalist Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot) of The Kama Sutra (1883), a daring enterprise in the context of the Victorian society. First published in 1861, this book is an account of Burton's 1860 trip to Salt Lake City. It offers a geographical and ethnological study of Utah that focuses on the Mormon church. In the course of his research, Burton was able to meet the Mormon prophet Brigham Young, leader of the Latter-Day Saints and founder of Salt Lake City. Burton describes various Mormon customs, showing particular interest in polygamy, which he treats with critical distance and his characteristic sense of humour.

The City of the Saints, and across the Rocky Mountains to California

Cambridge University Press

The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851-2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855-6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series. Volume 2 of Burton's book vividly describes the heat and dangers of the journey to Medina, the behaviour and conversation of the pilgrims from many different tribes and nations, and the mosques, tombs and other sights of the bustling city, complete with traders and beggars.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah: Volume 2, El-Medinah

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...being accepted. The price is now, including the Custom man wonderful and a good man." Probably, the royal cynic meant this compliment much as the "good young man " signifies in the mouth of a fast young "party." Mr. Duncan, however, rightly says of Gezo, as compared with the mob, " The King possesses talent far beyond the generality of his subjects; in fact, his noble mind seems to have been formed to govern.." YO L. 1 I. 1' House fee, -16 16s., and the chattel is not so sound, The annual number exported from Dahome cannot be higher than 15,000, which represents a paltry sum of 250,000. Were it not for the southward progress of El Islam, the slow and silent, but sure advance of the Perfect Cure, the future of negro Africa would not be bright. The experience of three centuries teaches us, that as a rule the tropical continent cannot be colonised by Europeans. We have also learned that hitherto maritime intercourse with its aqua mortis and bouches 42 feu has done nothing but degenerate the native, and that until the-long day when the Guinea Con1manders--of whom bluff old Phillips wrote, "their words and promises are the last to be depended upon of any I know use the sea; for they would deceive their fathers in their trade if they could "--shall become " virtuous," such will continue to be the result. The much talked of "reflux of the West upon the East" has yet to begin doing good: hitherto, as a rule, the semi-civilized negroes, like the S'a Leone people at Abeokuta, when restored to old influences have proved themselves worse than the heathenry. They have almost to a man displayed the blackest and most odious form of ingratitude, that...

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; With Notices of the So Called Amazons, the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Prese

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