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Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park

In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to depend for his survival on the charity of African villagers. Before he reached the Niger, he endured months of captivity in the camp of a Moorish chief. His subsequent misadventures included being robbed and stripped naked by Fulani bandits.Yet, throughout his travels, Park maintained a remarkable empathy for African societies and beliefs. He recorded what he saw as accurately as he could, and without presuming European superiority. He prefaced his Journal with the disclaimer that it ‘has nothing to recommend it but truth. It isa plain unvarnished tale, without any pretensions of any kind...’ Park’s truthfulness and lack of pretension will endear him to modern readers.

Author(s): Mungo Park ISBN: 9781840226010 Published: January 2002 Weight: 278g Dimensions: 129mm x 198mm x 23mm Pages: 390 Condition: BRAND NEW

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