Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Performed in the Years 1795, 1796 & 1797, with an Account of a Subsequent Mission to that Country in 1805
... war is certainly the most general and most productive source of slavery; and the desolations of war often produce famine, in which case a freeman becomes a slave, to avoid a greater calamity. -Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Mungo Park (1799) On May 22, 1795, Scottish explorer Mungo Park left England for Gambia, where he spent nearly two years travelling from the mouth of the Gambia River to Silla in current Mali. During this period, Park was robbed several times, captured by Moors, fell ill, and barely survived. He wrote Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa-Performed in the years 1795, 1796 & 1797, with an Accou…
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- ISBN: 978-1-64679-292-4
- EAN: 9781646792924
- Produktnummer: 35429540
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 582 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D3.3 cm 767 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 767
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MUNGO PARK (1771-1806), Scottish explorer and the first Westerner to have recorded travels in the central portion of the Niger, was considered the first successful explorer of Africa.
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