Travels in Mesopotamia: With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities

James Silk Buckingham

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Travels in Mesopotamia

With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities

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Volume 1
James Silk Buckingham

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2012
Print publication year:: 2011
First published in:: 1827
Online ISBN:: 9781139162432
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139162432

Subjects:: Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Middle East History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

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James Silk Buckingham
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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

PREFACE
pp v-xvi

Contents
pp xvii-xviii

ILLUSTRATIONS
pp xix-xxi

CHAPTER I - Journey from Aleppo to the Banks of the Euphrates
pp 1-44

CHAPTER II - Passage of the River Euphrates, at Beer
pp 45-67

CHAPTER III - From Beer, across the Plains of the Turcomans, to Orfah
pp 68-88

CHAPTER IV - Entry of the Caravan into the City of Orfah
pp 89-119

CHAPTER V - History and Description of Orfah—the Edessa of the Greeks, and the Ur of the Chaldees
pp 120-165

CHAPTER VI - Further Detention at Orfah: Interior of the City, Gardens, and Entertainments
pp 166-229

CHAPTER VII - From Orfah to the Encampment of El Mazār
pp 230-277

CHAPTER VIII - From the Arab Camp at El Mazār, to Mardin
pp 278-313

CHAPTER IX - Entry into, and Stay at, Mardin
pp 314-345

CHAPTER X - Journey from Mardin to Diarbekr
pp 346-363

CHAPTER XI - Description of Diarbekr
pp 364-401

CHAPTER XII - From Diarbekr to Mardin, Dara, and Nisibis
pp 402-447

CHAPTER XIII - From Nisibeen, across the Plain of Sinjar
pp 448-479

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