Travels in the Interior of Africa
by Park, Mungo
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1845880684
- ISBN 13
- 9781845880682
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Stroud: Nonsuch, 2005) 1845880684. 235 x 156 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 281; illustrations and text from the 1860 edition. Slight curl to corners of wrappers. Very good condition. "Mungo Park, surgeon, botanist and explorer, was born in Foulshiels, Scotland, into a society increasingly fascinated with the dark and largely uncharted continent of Africa. It was in 1795, however, at the tender age of twenty-three that Park truly made his name, leading an expedition that consisted only of himself and local guides. Travels in the Interior of Africa is the explorer's own account of this momentous attempt to chart the course of the Niger river, and the perils and wonders that accompanied his journey. His second expedition, which set out in 1805, is described posthumously from letters and journals. The bare facts of these incursions into a land both hostile and savage, welcoming and lavish, seem stranger than any fiction, and yet remain simply observations upon the most intrepid of adventures." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8218
- Title
- Travels in the Interior of Africa
- Author
- Park, Mungo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1845880684
- ISBN 13
- 9781845880682
- Publisher
- (Stroud: Nonsuch, 2005) 1845880684
- Place of Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- This edition first published
- June 1, 2005
- Keywords
- Mungo Park. Gambia. Niger. West Africa. African exploration Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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