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Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham - Including his Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures (Paperback)
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Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham - Including his Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures (Paperback)
Series: Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a writer who travelled
extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such
as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. He first went to sea as a
boy, and, aged only ten, spent a period as a prisoner-of-war in
Spain. He was expelled from India in 1823 for criticising the East
India Company and the Bengal government. Back in London, he was a
supporter of reform, and served as the first M.P. for the new
constituency of Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. He founded several
journals, including The Athenaeum. On retiring from Parliament, he
left for North America, where he spent nearly four years, and was
highly critical of America's economic dependence on slavery. His
autobiography was cut short by his death. Volume 1 covers his early
life and travels until 1812, mostly in the Mediterranean but also
to the West Indies and America.
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