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'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎9] (40/582)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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to kesrabad, or dastagherd.
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represented a cliff of stratified earth in horizontal lines, about fifty
feet in height. The river itself seemed scarcely of greater breadth
than this, and, excepting some deep water near the western shore,
we forded it easily. The water was sweet and clear, and the rate
of the stream little more than a mile per hour. From hence,
when the day more clearly broke, we obtained the first sight of
a range of low hills to the eastward of us, distant apparently from
thirty to forty miles, their general direction seeming to be from
north-west to south-east, and their outlines smooth. Ascending
the eastern shore, which was thickly covered with palms, we went
for about a quarter of an hour east, and then turning to the left,
entered some lanes between garden-walls of mud, which led us
into Bakouba, where the caravan dispersed, and we ourselves
alighted at a public khan.
S ept . 4th.—When the necessary duties of the day had been
completed, and we had fed and reposed, we strolled together
around the place. It is a large straggling village, formed of mud-
built dwellings, gardens, date-grounds, &c. all intermingled, with
a poor bazar and two small mosques. The inhabitants do not ex
ceed two thousand, all of whom are Arabs, and nearly half of these
Sheeahs or of the Persian sect. The place is under the command
of Yusef Aga, who is dependent on Assad Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bagdad; its
produce is purely agricultural, and this very scanty.
The old city of Bakouba is well known in Mohammedan
history; but this was much farther eastward. De Sacy, in his
Memoirs on the Antiquities of Persia, says: " There are two
Bakoubas,—one at the extremity of the province of Nahrvan, the
other only ten parasangs, or ten leagues, from Bagdad," # which
last he thinks to be the Aakouhe of Thevenot.f The distance
seems very accurate, as we had been full nine hours in performing
it, and, being all lightly laden, had gone somewhat more than three
miles an hour.
Page 363, 4to. Paris.
f Thevenot, vol. iii. p. 215.

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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.

The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."

Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.

Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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1 volume (545 pages)

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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).

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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).

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Title: 'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.'
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
Author: Buckingham, James Silk
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