Author: Mungo ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Travels in the Interior of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341789895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkRobert Brown and Mungo Park
Author: Joel SchwartzPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030748596
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Explorer-naturalists Robert Brown and Mungo Park played a pivotal role in the development of natural history and exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This work is a fresh examination of the lives and careers of Brown and Park and their impact on natural history and exploration. Brown and Park were part of a group of intrepid naturalists who brought back some of the flora and fauna they encountered, drawings of what they observed, and most importantly, their ideas. The educated public back home was able to gain an understanding of the diversity in nature. This eventually led to the development of new ways of regarding the natural world and the eventual development of a coherent theory of organic evolution. This book considers these naturalists, Brown, Park, and their contemporaries, from the perspective of the Scottish Enlightenment. Brown’s investigations in natural history created a fertile environment for breakthroughs in taxonomy, cytology, and eventually evolution. Brown’s pioneering work in plant taxonomy allowed biologists to look at the animal and plant kingdoms differently. Park’s adventures stimulated significant discoveries in exploration. Brown and Park’s adventures formed a bridge to such journeys as Charles Darwin’s voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, which led to a revolution in biology and full explication of the theory of evolution.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkPublisher: London : Printed for J. Murray, by W. Bulmer
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkTravels in West Africa
Author: Mary H. KingsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkSome Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants
Author: Anthony BenezetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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