NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855 NRA: Buckingham, James Silk (1786-1855) Author Traveller MP DNB: Buckingham, James Silk (1786-1855), author and traveller LBT ID: JaBucki1855 VIAF ID: 54910363 LOC ID: n50056195 | B/BAP: 1786-08-25 DIED: 1855-06-30 |
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Traveler, crusading journalist, and MP for Sheffield (1832-37); he edited the Oriental Herald (1824-29) and founded the Athenaeum (1828). | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY James Silk Buckingham: “On the Qualifications of Mr. Lockhart, as Editor of the Quarterly
Review” in The Athanaeum. Found 1.
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Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries east of Syria and
Palestine: including a Journey from Nazareth to the Mountains beyond the Dead Sea. Found 2.
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Travels in Mesopotamia: including a Journey from Aleppo, across the Euphrates
to Orfah, (the Ur of the Chaldees) through the Plains of the Turcomans, to Diarbekr, in
Asia Minor: from thence to Mardin, on the Borders of the Great Desert, and by the Tigris to
Mousul and Bagdad: with Researches on the ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela, Ctesiphon, and
Seleucia. Found 1.
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