!['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.' [‎327] (358/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0360.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.' [‎327] (358/582)")
'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.' [327] (358/582)
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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TO KAUZEROON. 327
wealth and power, he gave loose to his desires, and was sur
rounded by horses, servants, and slaves in public, and by num
bers of the most beautiful women in the privacy of his harem.
A Dervish, whose name is not remembered here, happening
to come this way from Bokhara and Samarcand, paid his morn
ing visit to the Khan, as these men are privileged to do, with
out ceremony. In the conversation which arose between them,
the Dervish, who it is said was a native of Upper India, from the
district between Delhi and Caubul, explained to him, in the lan
guage of our narrator, some of the beauties of philosophy and the
consolations of self-denial, and very powerfully contrasted them
with the useless and unmeaning splendour of state, which never
failed to bring with it a train of vexations and disappointments.
The effect of his discourse was said to be so instantaneously
convincing, that the young chief arose from his seat of state,
resigned his government to another, and made a solemn vow of
poverty and piety before God and the whole assembly, and be
came from thence the humble disciple of this hitherto unknown
philosopher. After following him to Bagdad on foot, they re
mained together some time in that city, when the master died.
The disciple still continued, however, to divide his time between
the tombs of Imam Ali and Imam Hossein, at both of which
places my Dervish, Ismael, remembered to have seen and con
versed with him, though he did not then know his history.
He at length returned into Persia, and was now at Shiraz,
where he still led a life of seclusion and contemplation, and had
never once been Jmown to express a regret for the abandon
ment of his former honours, or a wish to return again to the
pleasures of the world.
This history, which was related to us by a Persian of Kau-
zeroon, gave rise to a long and warm conversation between my
self and my Dervish, on the merit of the young Imam ; and I must
do my companion the justice to say, that though he set out with
the warmest admiration of this man's abandonment of wealth and
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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.'
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- 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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