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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.' [‎328] (359/582)

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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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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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328
FROM SHIRAZ
power for poverty and insignificance, yet he at length confessed
his conversion to my opinion, that, as a rich man, he might have
done better by retaining his place, and, under his new convic
tions, exercising his power in doing good.
The discourse which followed this, on the various doctrines
and practices of the many sects of Soofees which exist in Persia and
the countries east of it, detained us until we were summoned to
the prayer of sun-set by one of the clearest and most melodious
voices that I had for a long time heard, issuing from the terrace
of one of the mosques in Kauzeroon. The evening air was calm,
every other sound was still, and Nature herself seemed sunk
into an early repose, which heightened the effect of the holy
summons. It reminded me very powerfully of a similar com
bination on the banks of the Nile, when, in an evening of equal
serenity, I was so much charmed with the beautiful and im
pressive sounds of a Muezzin's voice echoing from the majestic
ruins of the deserted Thebes, and calling men to the worship of
the true God from amid the wreck of the fallen temples of idolatry.
Nov. 4th.—We passed a morning of great pleasure in the
garden, and partook of a breakfast, brought us from the town, in
a comfortable apartment of an unfurnished building at the bot
tom of it.
During the remainder of the day, we profited by our detention
here, to see somewhat more of the town than we could have done
by a mere passage through it. This task, however, occupied more
of our time than was agreeable to me ; and at last we returned
from our ramble, without being much gratified with the pictures
of ruin, desolation, poverty, and seeming discontent that met us
at every step.
The town of Kauzeroon is thought by its present inhabitants
to have been once so large as to have extended for several fur-
sucks in length ; but of this they offer no satisfactory proofs.
It may however have been once nearly double its present size.

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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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English in Latin script

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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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