Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19939720
AutoresKate Ferguson Marsters, Mungo Park (autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Fecha de publicación2011-02-03
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511793431
OpenAlexW4299491816
Open LibraryOL34453201M
ISBN9780511793431
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

Mungo Park (1771–1806) was a Scottish surgeon and explorer. Encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks, he was sent by the African Association, in 1795, to explore the interior of Africa, forbidden to western traders. He is believed to have been the first European to reach the River Niger. His return was delayed by imprisonment and illness, and he did not arrive back in Scotland until December 1797, having been thought dead. He later went on a second expedition to Africa, and died there in 1806. This account of his earlier travels, published in 1799, was an immediate best-seller, with three editions in the first year. Park presents a straightforward account of his journey, together with observations about daily life in West Africa, with none of the arrogant superiority so often expressed by European travellers. The book includes a vocabulary of Mandinka words, plates and maps, and a geographical appendix

Ancient history · Cartography · Genealogy · Geography · Imprisonment · Political science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Africa · discovery and exploration · mungo Park (1771-1806) · Niger river · Voyages and travels