British naval officer and explorer Robert F. Scott is best known for his failed; fatal efforts to be the first to reach the South Pole; but his initial Antarctic expedition aboard the Discovery from August 1901 to November 1904 was his most successful venture.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Very compelling reading. Gay people are all over the ...By Rodney M. BrownVery compelling reading. Gay people are all over the world; and have always been.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Very Informative ReadBy Susan WolfHad to read for a theology class. Very informative.1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. An example of how NOT to do research on "Islamic" cultureBy CustomerAs someone training to be a scholar of the cultural history of the Ottoman Empire; I am absolutely appalled by the shoddy scholarship that has gone into the making of this book. For all its talk of correcting Eurocentrism in scholarly treatments of the "Islam" and the "Middle East"; it relies on outdated Orientalist secondary sources to support the prevalence of "homosexuality" in the Islamic world; a claim that rests upon the anachronistic usage of the term and concept of homosexuality as we understand it today.Moreover; the fact that most of the authors (and even the editors) do not know the languages of the societies they purport to discuss undermines the project from the very outset. It is sad that this is deemed acceptable to most audiences (and most reviewers here on ) when it comes to the Islamic world; whilst; anybody not knowing English today would not be deemed fit by these very same audiences to research American history.The analysis often also clacks geographical or temporal specificity hereby bolstering the claim that Islamic societies and their cultural attitudes (to sexuality or to something else) have remind static over the centuries.
