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Mungo Park
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
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Mungo Park (11 September 1771 - 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger…
This classic recounts a 1795 exploration of the Niger River that provided Europeans with their first reliable account of West African life. Two centuries later, it offers singular views of…
… war is certainly the most general and most productive source of slavery; and the desolations of war often produce famine, in which case a freeman becomes a slave, to…
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Mungo Park (1771-1806) was a Scottish surgeon and explorer. He made two expeditions to the interior of Africa in 1795-7 and 1805-6. This illustrated account of his first journey was…
Park’s two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent’s interior. A vivid recollection and the most readable of all the…
Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa…
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Mungo Park, Mungo Isaaco
On the 2d of December 1795, I took my departure from the hospitable mansion of Dr. Laidley. I was fortunately provided with a Negro servant, who spoke both the English…
The Mandingoes and, I believe, the negroes in general, have no artificial method of dividing time. They calculate the years by the number of rainy seasons. They portion the year…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Joseph Thomson
Tightwad Economist
The Tightwad Economist has a lust for discovery and adventure. Incited by the preaching of the Messiah of Travel, the call of Africa is ineluctable. Not the cliched chic safaris…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: G. Philip
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Mungo Park's gripping tale of exploration in Africa is a classic of the genre. With vivid descriptions of the people, wildlife, and landscape he encountered, Park's writing offers a window…
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa is a travelogue by Scottish explorer Mungo Park, first published in 1799. The book chronicles Park's explorations of West Africa, including his journey…
Mungo Park,Mungo Isaaco
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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Mungo Park and the Niger is a book written by Joseph Thomson and published in 1890. The book is a biography of Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer who was the…
Mungo Park,Mungo Icaaco
Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797 / par M. Mungo Park, …; Traduit de l'anglais sur la 2e edition, par J. Castera, [M. Benoist]par le…
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Les trois voyages de Mungo Park au Maroc et dans l'interieur de l'Afrique (1787-1804), racontes par lui-memeDate de l'edition originale: 1882Sujet de l'ouvrage: Maroc – Descriptions et voyagesAfrique centrale –…
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