!['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.' [‎502] (533/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0535.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.' [‎502] (533/582)")
'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.' [502] (533/582)
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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502
CAPE MUSSUNNDOM.
charts, is itself composed of a cluster of high and rugged islands,
completely barren, with steep cliffs on all sides, and seemingly
rent from each other by some great concussion of nature, which
tore them in separate masses from the high promontory of the
continent behind them. Between all of these, it is probable that
there are passages of deep water ; but as a necessity of navigating
through them could hardly ever exist for large ships, so the at
tempt would be imprudent in the extreme; since hidden rocks
and violent currents might be expected there, as well as sudden
gusts through the chasms which the channels of the islands form.
The actual point of this Cape is extremely difficult to fix with
precision ; for, opposite the termination of the promontory of the
continent are several broken islands, all of them high, steep, and
barren, and, by the abrupt chasms that appear between them, they
seem to have been separated both from the main land, and from each
other, by some violent convulsion of nature. The water is known
to be of great depth all around and between these islands ; and this
circumstance, with the narrowness of the channels, occasions conti
nual eddies, which are dangerous to ships passing near them. An
instance is mentioned of an English ship of war anchoring in up
wards of one hundred fathoms water in a calm, to prevent being
driven on the rocks ; and this was within half a mile of the cliffs.
This promontory is unquestionably the Maketa of Nearchus,
seen by him from the opposite coast of Persia, and estimated at a
day's sail in distance ; and the information given to him by those
acquainted with the country, that this vast promontory was a part
of Arabia, and that from the ports in its neighbourhood spices were
exported to Assyria, proves the existence of a very ancient com
merce between the Arabs of these parts and India, from which
such spices must have been brought.* It is no doubt also the
same cape which is named Mount Pasabo by Marcian, and Asabo
by Ptolemy, who calls the range, of which this is the termina
tion, the Black Mountains; but I cannot help thinking the con
struction a forced one, which makes the combination of these
* Vincent's Nearchus, vol. i. p. 51.
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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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