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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Februar 2008
Genre:	Sprache
	Asian History / Hindu life and practice / Hinduism / HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia / Literary studies# classical, early & medieval / RELIGION / Hinduism / General / RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice / Sex & sexuality, sex manuals / South Asia (Indian sub-continent) / Teaching of a specific subject
ISBN:	9781843543749
EAN-Code:	9781843543749
Verlag:	Atlantic Books
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 204 mm / B 129 mm / D 21 mm
Gewicht:	300 gr
Seiten:	284
Illustration:	8 page colour plate section
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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.