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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Paperback - 2000

by Park, Mungo

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  • Title Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
  • Author Park, Mungo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd ed.
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0822325373.G
  • ISBN 9780822325376 / 0822325373
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.02 x 1.05 in (23.57 x 15.29 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress subjects Africa, West - Discovery and exploration, Niger River - Discovery and exploration
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00021534
  • Dewey Decimal Code 966.022

From the rear cover

"In a time when the world has grown tame and we have to manufacture our adventures, Mungo Park's "Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa" is both an education and a delight. The Africa he entered was uncharted and unknown, the farthest outpost of a truly wild and richly mysterious planet. He was the first European to go there and come back again, and he rewarded his society--and ours--with a geographical and anthropological marvel of a book, an adventure story to cap them all."--T. Coraghessan Boyle

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  • Library Journal, 07/01/2000, Page 125

About the author

Mungo Park (1771-1805) was a Scottish explorer who, at the age of twenty-four, travelled alone to Africa in search of the Niger River. A decade later, he returned to Africa on an ill-fated second mission, this time sponsored by the British government. Though there were no survivors of this journey, Park and the last few members of his expedition were reported to have met their deaths while attempting to follow the Niger to its end. Kate Ferguson Marsters is Assistant Professor of English at Gannon University.