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To: SMARTY
Sounds fascinating.

I'll have to see if I can find that book. I appreciate your notes.

Warmest regards!

86 posted on 08/24/2012 1:17:39 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Northern Yankee

My version was a paperback that I got on line.

I read and re read it because it is so well written and interesting.

There are copious foot notes and they are as interesting and information as the text, if not more so.

He was a real scholar, courageous explorer and also an linguist. Burton was so interesting and I think a real eccentric person. His wife (crazy woman) burned much of his work after he died and so things were lost.

See if you can’t get his bio because it is worth reading, too.


87 posted on 08/24/2012 1:23:18 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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