The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era evoking the world of the pleasureseeking men and women for whom the book was written.

James McConnachie shows that the Kamasutra was always much more than a sex manual it was a passionate portrayal of an ideal lifestyle that was even then under threat from the moralists.

He also demonstrates how the outrageous Victorian explorer Richard Burton with the help of a clandestine coterie of sexual experimenters and iconoclasts then unleashed this extraordinary volume on English society in an attempt to start a revolution.

And how the Kamasutra was driven underground into the hands of pirate pornographers before being thrust once more into the daylight in the wake of the publication of Lady Chatterleys Lover.

Product Details Hardback Book 272 pages Author James McConnachie Genre History Specific Events Sex Sexuality Sex Manuals Publisher Atlantic Books ISBN 9781843543732