Autobiography Of James Silk Buckingham: Including His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes And Failures, Faithfully And Frankly Narrated Interspersed With Characteristic Sketches Of Public Men, With Whom He Has Had Intercourse
Autobiography Of James Silk Buckingham: Including His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes And Failures, Faithfully And Frankly Narrated Interspersed With Characteristic Sketches Of Public Men, With Whom He Has Had Intercourse,
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. He first went to sea as a boy, and, aged only ten, spent a period as a prisoner-of-war in Spain. He was expelled from India in 1823 for criticising the East India Company and the Bengal government. Back in London, he was a supporter of reform, and served as the first M.P. for the new constituency of Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. He founded several journals, ...
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James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. He first went to sea as a boy, and, aged only ten, spent a period as a prisoner-of-war in Spain. He was expelled from India in 1823 for criticising the East India Company and the Bengal government. Back in London, he was a supporter of reform, and served as the first M.P. for the new constituency of Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. He founded several journals, including The Athenaeum. On retiring from Parliament, he left for North America, where he spent nearly four years, and was highly critical of America's economic dependence on slavery. His autobiography was cut short by his death. Volume 2 covers his travels in the Middle East and India, where he met European travellers including Belzoni and Burckhardt.
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