The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra

by James McConnachie

Book Overview

An engaging, enlightening "biography" of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world's most famous sex manual The "Kamasutra "is one of the world's best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular imagination, it is a work of practical pornography, a how-to guide of absurdly acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book began its long life in third-century India as something...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805088180
• ISBN13: 9780805088182
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.5"