From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 

by Madame Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky. Atmospheric account of a mystical voyage through India, visiting sacred citied, temples and caves, by the notorious occultist, spiritualist and Theosophy pioneer, Madame HP Blavatsky, from 1892

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"India is the land of legends and of mysterious nooks and corners. There is not a ruin, not a monument, not a thicket, that has no story attached to it. Yet, however they may be entangled in the cobweb of popular imagination, which becomes thicker with every generation, it is difficult to point out a single one that is not founded on fact. With patience and, still more, with the help of the learned Brahmans you can always get at the truth, when once you have secured their trust and friendship.

The same road leads to the temple of the Parsee fire-worshippers. At its altar burns an unquenchable fire, which daily consumes hundredweights of sandal wood and aromatic herbs. Lit three hundred years ago, the sacred fire has never been extinguished, notwithstanding many disorders, sectarian discords, and even wars. The Parsees are very proud of this temple of Zaratushta, as they call Zoroaster. Compared with it the Hindu pagodas look like brightly painted Easter eggs. Generally they are consecrated to Hanuman, the monkey-god and the faithful ally of Rama, or to the elephant headed Ganesha, the god of the occult wisdom, or to one of the Devis. You meet with these temples in every street. Before each there is a row of pipals (Ficus religiosa) centuries old, which no temple can dispense with, because these trees are the abode of the elementals and the sinful souls. 

All this is entangled, mixed, and scattered, appearing to one's eyes like a picture in a dream. Thirty centuries have left their traces here."

Two Oriental Erotic Classics: The Kama Sutra & The Perfumed Garden (illustrated ebook)

This electronic version features the original text from the great oriental treatises on the arts of love – the Kama Sutra and the Perfumed Garden. As translated by the notorious 19th century traveller and eroticist, Sir Richard Burton. 
 
Ancient tantric wisdom, enhanced for 21st century readers with hyperlinked contents, bibliographical links, and illustrated with period prints, paintings and photos, plus oriental sculptures and carvings. Plus mock parchment paper effect to give the “look and feel” of an original Victorian edition. 
 
Travel into an enchanted world of harem girls, concubines, love potions and exotic sexual practices. A "how-to guide" with a difference! 

Victorian Drug Fiends - Classic Tales of Opium and Hashish!

A collection of infamous classics of drug literature: short stories, journalism, medical reports, poetry, visions, with vintage 19th century illustrations (prints, photos, postcards...), capturing the heady essence of Victorian drug culture. From the Romantic opium-eaters, to the Bohemian hashish fanatics, intrinsically linked to the underground art and literature of the era. Narcotics, opium dens, bhang, cannabis, hasheesh eaters, water pipes, hallucinogens and hallucinations, dreamy afternoons and hedonistic nights of absinthe, reefer cigarettes and sex. Entertaining, often erotic... dare we say addictive?

A literary anthology of authors including Aleister Crowley, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Richard Burton, de Quincey, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Bayard Taylor, Baudelaire, Dickens, and Louisa May Alcott!