Travels in the Interior of Africa. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by John Williamson.

PARK, MUNGO:

Item Description: London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903, 1903. Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Blue cloth, coloured and gilt pictorial designs and gilt lettering to front and spine. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing and fading to top edges of cover and spine, corners and edges slightly rubbed. inside pages very clean and tight. 392pp + 8pp cat. Illustrated with 8 colour plates by John Williamson. Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger River, and his account of his travels is still in print.