The Book of Love
In Search of the Kamasutra
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2008
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Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-84354-374-9 (ISBN)
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-84354-374-9 (ISBN)
How did an ancient Hindu treatise come to be the world's best-known sex manual? Now available in paperback, The Book of Love is the first book to tell the story of the Kamasutra in full.
'A vastly entertaining and consistently intelligent guide to this misunderstood and vaguely disreputable book.' Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2008
The Kamasutra was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and women - for whom the book was written.
It is also the story of the West's discovery of the Kamasutra: how the last surviving manuscripts were tracked down in India by visionary Victorian scholars, and painstakingly translated. It exposes how, with the help of a clandestine coterie of sexual experimenters and iconoclasts, the outrageous explorer Richard Burton unleashed this shocking volume on English society in an attempt to start a revolution. The Book of Love then follows the Kamasutra underground, where it was forced into the hands of pirate pornographers before being thrust once more into the daylight in the wake of the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
'A vastly entertaining and consistently intelligent guide to this misunderstood and vaguely disreputable book.' Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2008
The Kamasutra was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and women - for whom the book was written.
It is also the story of the West's discovery of the Kamasutra: how the last surviving manuscripts were tracked down in India by visionary Victorian scholars, and painstakingly translated. It exposes how, with the help of a clandestine coterie of sexual experimenters and iconoclasts, the outrageous explorer Richard Burton unleashed this shocking volume on English society in an attempt to start a revolution. The Book of Love then follows the Kamasutra underground, where it was forced into the hands of pirate pornographers before being thrust once more into the daylight in the wake of the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
James McConnachie is a travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was brought up in London, studied at Jesus College, Oxford, and has lived and travelled widely in Nepal and India.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 page colour plate section |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 204 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84354-374-5 / 1843543745 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84354-374-9 / 9781843543749 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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