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(Stroud: Nonsuch, 2005) 1845880684. 235 x 156 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 281; illustrations and text from the 1860 edition. Slight curl to corners of wrappers. Very good condition. "Mungo Park, surgeon, botanist and explorer, was born in Foulshiels, Scotland, into a society increasingly fascinated with the dark and largely uncharted continent of Africa. It was in 1795, however, at the tender age of twenty-three that Park truly made his name, leading an expedition that consisted only of himself and local guides. Travels in the Interior of Africa is the explorer's own account of this momentous attempt to chart the course of the Niger river, and the perils and wonders that accompanied his journey. His second expedition, which set out in 1805, is described posthumously from letters and journals. The bare facts of these incursions into a land both hostile and savage, welcoming and lavish, seem stranger than any fiction, and yet remain simply observations upon the most intrepid of…
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- Title Travels in the Interior of Africa
- Author Mungo Park
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 281
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Nonsuch Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Date June 1, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781845880682 / 1845880684
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 916.620
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