Richard Burton: The Indian Making of an Arabist.(Book review)

Marg, A Magazine of the Arts | December 1, 2007| | Copyright

Richard Burton: The Indian Making of an Arabist by Simon Digby. Orient Monographs, Jersey Island (UK), 2006. 72 pages.

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This slim volume consists of the annotated text of a lecture on Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) delivered at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, by Simon Digby, the recipient of the Sir Richard Burton Commemorative Medal in 1999. It is only appropriate that a 19th-century British traveller, scholar, and translator should be reassessed at the turn of the 21st century by another British traveller, scholar, and translator, ...

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