Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia Paperback / softback
by James Silk Buckingham
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor series
Paperback / softback
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Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia.
His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823.
In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms.
He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum.
This illustrated two-volume work, published in 1829 and reprinted here from its second edition of 1830, recounts Buckingham's journey through Assyria and Persia en route for India, giving vivid descriptions of its ancient sites and his views on the modern inhabitants of the region.
In Volume 1 he starts his narrative at Baghdad, describing Isfahan and the Achaemenid capital, Persepolis, before arriving at Shiraz.
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- Pages:566 pages, 16 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781108042116
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:566 pages, 16 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108042116
