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    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 February 2013
    08 March 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139162425
    9781108042123
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139162425
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.62kg, 494 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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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 2 he travels from Shiraz down to Bushire on the Persian Gulf, a haunt of pirates, before sailing for Bombay from Muscat.

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