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The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam assembles Burtons essays on Jewish communities the Romani and Islam into a lateVictorian compendium Mixing travelogue philological note and polemic it moves from anecdote and proverb to comparative ethnology Field observations and voracious reading yield portraits of rites and languages alongside arguments marked by curiosity and period bias Sir Richard Francis Burtonsoldier linguist explorer translatorspent years a...Seguir leyendo