Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797.
With an account of a subsequent mission to that country in 1805.
To which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park.
A new edition.
2 volumes
London, Murray; 1816
With 1 folding map
XX, 551; XVI, CVIII (recte: CCVIII), 301 p.
Re-bound, bindings and spines are different.
Good interior, some wear.
Vol. I front endpapers detached, small dampstain at the lower right corner
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Mungo Park (1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.
If the African Association was the "beginning of the age of African exploration" then Mungo Park was its first successful explorer; he set a standard for all who followed. Park was the first Westerner to have recorded travels in the central portion of the Niger, and through his popular book introduced the public to a vast unexplored continent which influenced future European explorers and colonial ambitions in Africa.

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