flashy that lustful libertine takes a roundtheworld adventure that would shock don juan and make swingers of today green with envy in an english mansion hes not just doodling in the drawing room with a blue bloods redhotblooded mistress in africa hes forced to serve a sultry queen who kills lowendurance loversthe irresistable antihero heads to china where he gets between a pair of chinese beauties wholl do anything to improve eastwest relations en route he takes cover on warship under fire with an explosive malay maidena romp that will have lucky readers chortling with delight publishers weekly the question does civilization civilize is a fine example of petitio principii and decides itself in the affirmative for civilization must needs do that from the doing of which it has its name but it is not necessary to suppose that he who propounds is either unconscious of his lapse in logic or desirous of digging a pitfall for the feet of those who discuss i take it he simply wishes to put the matter in an impressive way and relies upon a certain degree of intelligence in the interpretation