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Park, Mungo

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805; Together with Other Documents, Official and Private Relating to the Same Mission, to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park

1815

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Year of publication
1815
Place of printing
London. John Murray
Author
Park, Mungo
Edition
Second edition, revised and corrected with additions, the first
Keyword
Travel - Africa
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

4to [28 x 21 cm]; xvii, [i, glossary], 373 pp, engraved foldout map showing author's routes in yellow, blue and red, with the section titles, illustrations including one of African bridge. later cloth with gilt spine title lettering, bookplate on endpaper, library inkstamps on title, title page worn, soiled & with short tear, repair on verso map, 2 leaves with repair, lightly foxed on some leaves, but a good sound & otherwise clean copy. A This is the journal of Park's second African expedition begun in 1805 to explore by canoe and find the source of the Niger, where he subsequently died trying. It is proceeded with a detailed memoir of his life, and Isaaco's journal and Amadi Fatouma's journal at the end of the book, with six appendices. Hilmy II, 93. See Printing and the Mind of Man 253.