Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 (P

from starbox

This is an all-action account of 24 yr old Scottish surgeon Mungo Park's expedition to trace the source of the Niger. I'd had pictures of steamy jungles, but Park's journey from the Gambia and into Mali, is much more of a progress through sundry villages (under very different rulers) and arid des...

from Lukerik

I don't think there's anybody I wouldn't recommend this book to. Not a single page lacks something fascinating. Park was the first European to travel that way and return to tell the tale. He finds an Africa of extremes. On the one hand here is a land with iron working and inoculation. On the othe...

from Stbalbach

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa was published in 1799 and this fact colors everything. Mungo Park was generations ahead of his time, future African explorers like Burton and Livingstone were not even born yet. He was the first famous British explorer of Africa with dozens to follow ov...

from Stbalbach

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa was published in 1799 and this fact colors everything. Mungo Park was generations ahead of his time, future African explorers like Burton and Livingstone were not even born yet. He was the first famous British explorer of Africa with dozens to follow ov...