Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia 2 Volume Set

James Silk Buckingham

Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia 2 Volume Set
Format
Mixed media product
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 March 2012
Pages
1060
ISBN
9781108042130

Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia 2 Volume Set

James Silk Buckingham

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. Volume 1 covers the journey from Baghdad to Shiraz, and Volume 2 from Shiraz to the Persian Gulf port of Muscat in Modern Oman.

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