1 volume. Large format 1815 edition.
Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards.
Large engraved multi-folding map.
cxxx, 219 pages. Subscription label.
The explorer was killed on his second expedition to trace
the flow of the Niger, when, with the last survivors of his party,
he was ambushed at Bussah. The events of this second journey
are related from Park's journals and other sources in Journal of a Mission
to the Interior of Africa, large-format, edition published in 1815.
'The memory of this red-bearded stranger, firing so desperately from
his fast moving boat, haunted the inhabitants of the villages along the
great bend of the river. Fifty years later Heinrich Barth, the first traveller
to explore that stretch of the Niger in detail, heard stories of his fate which
"proved what an immense excitement the mysterious appearance of this
European traveller, in his solitary boat, had caused among the surrounding
tribes. [Christopher Lloyd, The Search for the Niger].
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