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Travels in Mesopotamia - With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities (Paperback)
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Travels in Mesopotamia - With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities (Paperback)
Series: Travels in Mesopotamia 2 Volume Set, 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 and for the
promotion of the temperance movement. He founded several journals,
including the periodical The Athenaeum, covering a wide range of
topics from literature to popular science. This illustrated
two-volume work, published in 1827, recounts Buckingham's journey
through Mesopotamia, giving descriptions of its ancient sites and
opinions of its modern inhabitants. In Volume 1, Buckingham
recounts in great detail his journey from the historic city, Aleppo
in Syria to Sinjar (now in north-western Iraq).
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