{"product_id":"autobiography-of-james-silk-buckingham-including-his-voyages-travels-adventures-speculations-successes-and-failures-paperback-9781108038577","title":"Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham; Including his Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108038577","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAutobiography of James Silk Buckingham\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIncluding his Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and Failures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis two-volume autobiography of James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), traveller, writer and social idealist, was published in 1855.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Silk Buckingham (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108038577, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJames 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 1 covers his early life and travels until 1812, mostly in the Mediterranean but also to the West Indies and America.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reasons for writing this autobiography\u003cbr\u003e 2. Excitement of the French Revolution, in 1792\u003cbr\u003e 3. My going to sea at length determined on\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sailing from Falmouth, after adieus and struggles\u003cbr\u003e 5. Second voyage to Lisbon in the same ship\u003cbr\u003e 6. Disastrous issue for my third voyage to Lisbon\u003cbr\u003e 7. Setting out on our march through Galicia\u003cbr\u003e 8. The English fleet of Sir John Jervis entering the Tagus\u003cbr\u003e 9. Complete change in the current of my life\u003cbr\u003e 10. Life of ease and pleasure passed on shore\u003cbr\u003e 11. Determination to resume my original sea-life\u003cbr\u003e 12. Delay in the arrival of an expected ship\u003cbr\u003e 13. First voyage to the West Indies in the Titus\u003cbr\u003e 14. Portuguese merchants from Lisbon and Oporto\u003cbr\u003e 15. Voyage to Virginia, in America, in the ship Rising States\u003cbr\u003e 16. First appointment as Captain of a West Indiaman, at twenty-one\u003cbr\u003e 17. First entertainment at a military mess-room\u003cbr\u003e 18. Homeward voyage from the Bahama Islands\u003cbr\u003e 19. Association with captains, merchants, and ship-owners\u003cbr\u003e 20. Anticipations and preparations for the Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003e 21. Departure from Gibraltar for Malta\u003cbr\u003e 22. Departure from Malta for the Archipelago.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266056343832,"sku":"9781108038577","price":34.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108038577i.jpg?v=1696746363","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/autobiography-of-james-silk-buckingham-including-his-voyages-travels-adventures-speculations-successes-and-failures-paperback-9781108038577","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}