Memoirs
of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia 1857
Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government
by
J. F. Jones
DESCRIPTION
Records of the
Bombay Government, No. XLIII, Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan
and Turkish Arabia 1857,
is a nineteenth-century original with a new preface by the late
Dr M. Burrel, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. The volume includes six importand historical,
archeological and geographical essays covering
Baghdad, the Nahrwan canal and large parts of Kurdistan,
the topography of Nineveh and the old course of the River Tigris. Also included
are some 30 maps and plates, many in color,
most notably the ground-plan of Baghdad. The author and surveyor, Commander
J. F. Jones
joined the Bombay Marine - later renamed the Indian Navy - at the age of 14.
By the late summer of 1839 he had begun work in the Persian Gulf, where he
was to spend most of next 25 years. He was Political Agent in Bushire from
1855 to 1862 and had an important role to play in the British
invasion of southern Persia in 1856.
Title:
Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia 1857: Selections from the
Records of the Bombay Government
ISBN 13: 9781852070991
ISBN 10: 1852070994
SKU: CAM-1852070994
Author: J. F. Jones
Publisher: Archive Editions Ltd
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 500