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Goa and The Blue Mountains Or Six Months of Sick Leave

by Richard F. Burton
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121234399
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 387
  • Original Price: INR 780.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 613 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

This book was written by the author, when he was on vacation recovering from an illness. During his six-month stay in Goa he wrote this book on the basis of his experience. Being the wanderer that he was and a prolific writer, he flaunts his pen and opinion that arouse different feelings in the people who read his works Blunt to the point of being bigoted, he was not one who’d mince his works. The book contains with a description of his voyage to Goa; he then describes the Goan country and people and further touches upon its history from there he continues his travel to visit Calicut, Malabar (in the modern Indian state of Kerala); and Ooty. These areas include the Nilgiri Mountains also called the Blue Mountains. He describes vividly the lives of the locals, their customs and tradition, their language, the history and other sights and experiences that he underwent while on the road. The author has preserved maps, illustrations and plates from oblivion. The book is a reprint of the 1851 edition.

Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, Freemason, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; a translation of The Perfumed Garden, the "Arab Kama Sutra"; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.

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