Richard Francis: 126 books

A short story from a turbulent time...two strong women...devastating results...get to understand Deborah and perhaps what had motivated Jael to kill Sisera with a tentpeg...experience Deborah's emotions as she leads Israel

This book is based on a true story. Perhaps by reading it you will know what that Higher Love is and perhaps it will help you find the 'Higher Love'. Higher love... who can understand it? It's depth it's heartache...yes, the longing...the tears that well up when the memories all come crashing in...

By winning the lotto he became President of the United States of America and changed a Nation! He won the hearts of the people and he won the heart of his woman! A Novel full of determination and romance.

The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman from what is now north-western Pakistan or Afghanistan. Having spent seven years in India with the army of the East India...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Impelled by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure and aided by an extraordinary facility in Eastern languages, Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was one of the great traveler-explorers of history. He was the...

Contents of the Eleventh Volume. 1. The Sleeper and the Waker Story of the Larrikin and the Cook 2. The Caliph Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz and the Poets 3. Al-Hajjaj and the Three Young Men 4. Harun Al-Rashid and the Woman of the Barmecides 5. The Ten Wazirs; or the History of King Azadbakht and...

Vikram and the Vampire, translated and adapted by Sir Richard Burton, is a group of tales told by a baital (not really a vampire but a kind of spirit who can inhabit dead bodies) to King Vikram (described by Burton as the King Arthur of India). The stories are somewhat in the style of the tales of the Arabian Nights. (Goodreads)

Chock full of ethnographical information about the Muslims of Somalia, Richard Burton's "First Footsteps in Africa" is a great look at a white man's first forays into that area of the continent. (Goodreads)

The "Kama Sutra" is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior. A large portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. "Kama" is one of the three goals of life, means sensual or sexual pleasure. The second...

The Kama Sutra is the famous historical Indian text on love-making. In prose and verse it discusses the building blocks of a good life, good marital conduct and the attainment of a lover. The largest part of the text is devoted to sexual practices, including foreplay, positions and technique.

Averse to writing, as well as to reading, diffuse Prolegomena, the author finds himself compelled to relate, at some length, the circumstances which led to the subject of these pages.

Part of the Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans series, the New York Times called this 1901 biography of the American Quaker poet and abolitionist "unusually well depicted."

The principle of inclusion in this book is the traditional one which assumes that criticism is only safe when it deals with authors who are dead. In proportion as we approach the living or, worse, speak of those still on earth, the proper perspective is lost and the dangers of contemporary judgment...