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Article: Richard Burton: The Indian Making of an Arabist.(Book review)
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- Marg, A Magazine of the Arts
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- December 1, 2007
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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, who is not as much a celebrity as Burton was in his time but as legendary a figure in our academic ...
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