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Travels in the Interior of Africa : Volume I (Illustrated)

Travels in the Interior of Africa : Volume I (Illustrated)

ByMungo Park

“Mungo Park was born on the 10th of September, 1771, the son of a farmer at Fowlshiels, near Selkirk. After studying medicine in Edinburgh, he went out, at the age of twenty-one, assistant-surgeon in a ship bound for the East Indies. When he came back the African Society was in want of an explorer, to take the place of Major Houghton, who had died. Mungo Park volunteered, was accepted, and in his twenty-fourth year, on the 22nd of May, 1795, he sailed for the coasts of Senegal, where he arrived in June. The first of the two volumes which contain Mungo Park’s “Travels in the Interior of Africa” brought him through many perils to the first sight of the Niger, and left him sick and solitary, stripped of nearly all that he possessed, a half-starved white man on a half-starved horse. He was helped on by a bag of cowries from a kindly chief; but in this volume he has not advanced far before he is stripped of all.”

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Publication Date
Feb 13, 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781312011397
Category
Travel & Adventure
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Mungo Park

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EPUB

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