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Travels in the interior of Africa / Mungo Park with an introduction and notes by Bernard Waites.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Park, Mungo, author.
- Series:
- Wordsworth classics of world literature.
- Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa, West--Discovery and exploration.
- Africa, West.
- Park, Mungo, 1771-1806--Travel--Africa, West.
- Park, Mungo.
- Park, Mungo, 1771-1806--Travel--Niger River.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Hertfordshire, [England] : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1795, the 24 year old Scottish surgeon Mungo Park set out from the Gambia to trace the Niger's course. This journal records his experiences. Throughout his travels and misadventures the author records what he sees as accuratly as he could, and without presuming European superiority.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2016).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed October 7, 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848704947
- 1848704941
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