BUCKINGHAM (James Silk).
A Single Lecture on Egypt Will be Given by Mr. Buckingham, the Oriental Traveler. In the Senate Chamber of the Court House in Zanesville, This evening, April 22d, 1840.
RARE BROADSIDE ADVERTISING A LECTURE BY JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM
A rare survival from James Silk Buckingham’s four-year tour of North America.
“Buckingham spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and between 1813 and 1818 travelled extensively in Egypt, Palestine, and Persia. In October 1818 he established at Calcutta a newspaper called the Calcutta Journal. His forthright criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India and the suppression of the paper by the acting governor-general, John Adam, in April 1823” (ODNB).
On his return to England, he published two accounts of his travels, Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine (1825) and Travels in Assyria, Media and Persia (1829) and settled into life as a politician, representing the borough of Sheffield from 1832 to 1837. It was on his retirement in October of that year that he embarked on a lecture of America.
Not on OCLC; not in AAS.
