!['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.' [‎309] (340/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0342.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎309] (340/582)")
'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.' [309] (340/582)
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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THE GYMNASTS, OR ATHLETES.
309
These houses of strength were once patronized by the Persian
Government, but they are now no longer so supported ; the people
of the country are however much attached to the exercises, and
attend them fully and frequently. The money given by visitors
who take no part in the exercises goes to a fund for the insti
tution ; and the rich and middling classes, of whom there are
many who enter the lists, make up the deficiency. On Fridays
the place is crowded with visitors, who give presents at their
discretion. There are four or five of these houses at Shiraz, many
more at Ispahan, several at Kermanshah and Teheran, and indeed
in all the great towns of Khorassan and Turkomania, as far as
Bokhara and Samarcand, according to the testimony of my Dervish,
who says he has seen them and frequented them often. At
Bagdad and Moosul there are the same institutions, and by the
same name of Zoor Khoneh ; which proves their having been
borrowed from this country, as the name is purely Persian. At
Bagdad, about two years since, there came a Pehlawan, or cham
pion, named Melek Mohammed, from Casvin, and addressed
himself to the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. It is the custom for these champions to
go from place to place, to try their strength with the victors or
champions of each ; and if there be none at the place last visited,
the governor is obliged to give a hundred tomaums; but if there
be one, and the stranger vanquishes him, he must be content
with the honour of victory and succeeding to the place of the
vanquished. The
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Bagdad replying to Melek Moham
med that he had a champion already attached to his court, a day
was appointed for the man of Casvin to try his strength with
him of Bagdad. Moosa Baba, the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's Kabobshee, or sausage-
maker, appeared, and both the combatants were stripped, and
girded with the girdle of the Zoor Khoneh alone, before the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's house. The Casvin champion seized the Bagdad cook
by the stomach, and so wrenched him with the grasp of one hand
only, that the man fainted on the spot, and died within five days
afterwards. The
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
rewarded the victor with ten pieces of
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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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- '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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