Baghdad During The Abbasid Caliphate

1900. From contemporary Arabic and Persian Sources. With eight plans. A topography of mediaeval Baghdad; complete history and plan of the great metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphs. 1417947810 1856. In One Volume, Illustrated. George Coggeshall had a long and often adventurous seagoing career, during which he kept detailed journals. Upon his retirement he mined material from his journals and produced several books of seafaring memoirs. Of his writing style it has been said that Coggeshall wrote a clear, terse, seamanly English flavored with a dash of quiet elegance. His strength lies in his details.; his best writing, in fact, can stand comparison with the novels of Daniel Defoe. In this volume Coggeshall remembers the ships and commandeers that sailed from our ports during the war.