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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (Paperback)
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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor, Volume 1
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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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