MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER

1 volume. First edition thus 1890.

From the series The World's Great Explorers

and Explorations - Mungo Park.

Publishers original dark brown cloth styled as a half binding

with grained cloth over polished cloth, gilt titles to spine and

decorated on the upper cover and spine in black. 

Colour endpapers.

Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard from contemporary engraving.

12 full-page plates.

7 in-text illustrations.

7 full-page colour maps, 2 of which are folding. 

The African Association of London's previous four expeditions

to explore the Niger river had failed by the time they charged

Park, a Scotsman, with the commission to explore the Gambia,

Senegal, and Niger rivers in 1795. He covered well over 100 miles

he fell ill in 1797 and returned back to England. His unaffected style

and natural sense of storytelling made his account one of the most

widely read of African exploration. Here Joseph Thomson, an accomplished

African explorer and author from Scotland as well, provides us with a

concise and well written history of Mungo Park's travels and adventures.

Recorded shipping weight 1000g.

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