The British Barbarians
by Grant Allen
1895
Number of pages: 306
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A dramatic, romantic, colonial novel raising a 'protest in favour of purity'. An Alien came in England to find and analyze taboos in this country. He had to take extreme caution necessary in all anthropologue investigations on points of religious or social usage.
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