Medienkombination, Englisch, 862 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Including his Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures
Medienkombination, Englisch, 862 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
ISBN: 978-1-108-03859-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 spent a period as a Spanish prisoner-of-war. 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 political, social and military reform, and served as the first MP for Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. He founded several journals, including The Athenaeum, a weekly London periodical. 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. This autobiography, which remained incomplete at his death, was published in 1855, and shows the range of his interests, his energy, and his desire for social and political reform.
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Volume 1: Preface; 1. Reasons for writing this autobiography; 2. Excitement of the French Revolution, in 1792; 3. My going to sea at length determined on; 4. Sailing from Falmouth, after adieus and struggles; 5. Second voyage to Lisbon in the same ship; 6. Disastrous issue for my third voyage to Lisbon; 7. Setting out on our march through Galicia; 8. The English fleet of Sir John Jervis entering the Tagus; 9. Complete change in the current of my life; 10. Life of ease and pleasure passed on shore; 11. Determination to resume my original sea-life; 12. Delay in the arrival of an expected ship; 13. First voyage to the West Indies in the Titus; 14. Portuguese merchants from Lisbon and Oporto; 15. Voyage to Virginia, in America, in the ship Rising States; 16. First appointment as Captain of a West Indiaman, at twenty-one; 17. First entertainment at a military mess-room; 18. Homeward voyage from the Bahama Islands; 19. Association with captains, merchants, and ship-owners; 20. Anticipations and preparations for the Mediterranean; 21. Departure from Gibraltar for Malta; 22. Departure from Malta for the Archipelago. Volume 2: 1. Voyage through the Straits of Scio to Smyrna; 2. New phase of life. Gaiety and pleasure in London; 3. Stay at Malta and agreeable parties there; 4. Agreeable stay at Smyrna, notwithstanding the plague; 5. Sail from Smyrna with a companion, the Hermes; 6. Elegant hospitalities and agreeable parties in England; 7. Sail for Smyrna. Leaving goods behind at Malta; 8. Embark for Egypt in the schooner Theodosia; 9. Voyage from Alexandria to Rosetta by the Lakes; 10. Offer to transport ships across the Desert of Suez; 11. Visit a caravan of slaves from the interior of Africa; 12. Descent of the Nile from Nubia, and the Cataracts; 13. Descent of the Nile from Keneh to Cairo; 14. Journey in search of the ancient canal; 15. Journey through the land of Goshen; 16. First interview with Mohammed Ali Pasha; 17. Departure for India by Suez and the Red Sea; 18. Voyage from Jedda by Loheia and Hodeida to Mocha; 19. Entrance to the noble harbour of Bombay; 20. Mercantile want of confidence in the Egyptian Pasha; 21. Voyage from Bombay to Suez by the Red Sea; 22. Arrival at Suez, and journey across the desert.
