Personal Narrative Of A Journey From India To England : by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the Year 1824, 2 Vols

George Thomas Keppel (1799-1821), who became the sixth Earl of Albemarle in 1851, was an aide-de-camp to the British governor general in India from 1821 to 1823, when he was given leave to return home overland. Along the way he visited the ruins of Babylon and the court of Teheran, Persia; and he passed through numerous little-known areas of Turkey and Russia.