The appeal of the man is unabated

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In the last period of his life Richard Burton got down to the translation of a clandestine edition of six erotic works, thereby risking prosecution under the Obscene Publications Act, which had been passed in 1857. His interest in "exotic" sexual practices was already evident from his travelling accounts, ranging from accounts of the bordels of Karachi to the customs of Somalian tribes. Burton and his friend Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot founded the Karma Sutra Society of London and.

Benares and undertook the translation of major Hindu and Arab works of ars amoris, including the Karma Sutra of Vatsyaayana (1883), Ananga Ranga (1885), A Thousand and One Nights (1885) and The Perfurmed Garden of Sheikh Nefzaoui. It was while working on the translation of a passage of the latter work which had been omitted from the first phone number list edition, that Burton died, on 19th October 1890. In the course of the next fifteen deaths after her husband's death, Isabel Burton, who had never approved of her husband's passion for erotic literature, confined countless pages of Burton's works to the flames, not only private note books but also the manuscript of Perfumed Garden-for the "salvation of his soul".

The first in a long line of Britons to love the desert, brilliant linguist, incomparable translator, superb writer of some forty-three travel books, pioneer in the field of cultural anthropology, in his time: archeologist, soldier, swordsman, poet, spy, diplomat, gold prospector and much more besides. He gives the impression of oscillating between Good and Evil or even beyond Good and Evil, as Mrs. Brodie argues. He was, according to his biographer, a man perpetually at war with himself, a man of action opposed to a man of letters, a man of the sword and a poet, a bawdy swashbuckler, a libertine a seeker tormented by the secrets of sexual vigour.