Author: Mungo ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Travels in the Interior of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341789895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797: Last journey, and life
Author: Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa:
Author: Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior of Africa
Author: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Author: Mungo ParkPublisher: Frontlist Books
ISBN: 9781843500858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In 1795, at the age of twenty-four, Mungo Park began a journey from the Gambia into the uncharted interior of the African continent. Travelling with only native guides, and later entirely alone, his goal was to become the first European to reach the River Niger and the fabled city of Timbuctoo. The journey took him through warring African kingdoms and the fringes of the Sahara Desert, leading him into great physical hardship and danger. He endured imprisonment by a Moorish chief for several months, was repeatedly robbed, and came close to death from thirst and starvation. He eventually reached the Niger and mapped part of its course, before being forced to turn back. He had long been given up for dead by the time he returned to the Gambia in 1797. Throughout the journey he kept meticulous notes, which he transcribed into Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa on his return to Britain. His simple and modest account of his journey and the conditions he encountered along the way has been an inspiration to travellers and writers ever since it was first published in 1799. More than a travel journal, it is a story of adventure and survival that offers a unique insight into conditions in West Africa before widespread European settlement.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Last journey, and life
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.