The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra - Couverture souple

McConnachie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843543745 ISBN 13 : 9781843543749

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2008

Synopsis

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 propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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. The Book of Love was published by Atlantic in 2007.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843543745
• ISBN 13: 9781843543749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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