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Travels in the Interior of Africa

By (author) Mungo Park
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Jan 2018
Dimensions: w 128mm h 198mm d 18mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN-10: 1909612782
ISBN-13: 9781909612785
Barcode No: 9781909612785
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Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead, and the tale of his perilous journey published in 1799 was greeted with great acclaim. Travels in the Interior of Africa provided Europeans with one of the first detailed descriptions of the geography and peoples of the African continent. The story of his remarkable journey is told with extraordinary modesty and clarity, and it remains as vivid and readable today as when he first wrote it.Park went back to West Africa on a second journey in 1805, but he failed to return. In his last letter he declared his intent "to discover the termination of the Niger or perish in the attempt". He drowned in the Niger whilst trying to escape an attack by natives.

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