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Mungo Park The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 18051 volume. Large
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Mungo Park The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
John Murray
London
1815
First edition
Very good
29.5 x 23 cm
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1 volume. Large format 1815 edition.
Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards.
Large engraved multi-folding map.
cxxx, 219 pages. Subscription label.
Some modern maps added to endpapers.
The explorer was killed on his second expedition to trace
the flow of the Niger, when, with the last survivors of his party,
he was ambushed at Bussah. The events of this second journey
are related from Park's journals and other sources in Journal of a Mission
to the Interior of Africa, large-format, edition published in 1815.
"The memory of this red-bearded stranger, firing so desperately from
his fast moving boat, haunted the inhabitants of the villages along the
great bend of the river. Fifty years later Heinrich Barth, the first traveller
to explore that stretch of the Niger in detail, heard stories of his fate which
proved what an immense excitement the mysterious appearance of this
European traveller, in his solitary boat, had caused among the surrounding
tribes, [Christopher Lloyd, The Search for the Niger].
Recorded shipping weight 2000g.
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John Murray
London
1815
First edition
Very good
29.5 x 23 cm
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Mungo Park The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
John Murray
London
1815
First edition
Very good
29.5 x 23 cm
For further details and and to bid visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
1 volume. Large format 1815 edition.
Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards.
Large engraved multi-folding map.
cxxx, 219 pages. Subscription label.
Some modern maps added to endpapers.
The explorer was killed on his second expedition to trace
the flow of the Niger, when, with the last survivors of his party,
he was ambushed at Bussah. The events of this second journey
are related from Park's journals and other sources in Journal of a Mission
to the Interior of Africa, large-format, edition published in 1815.
"The memory of this red-bearded stranger, firing so desperately from
his fast moving boat, haunted the inhabitants of the villages along the
great bend of the river. Fifty years later Heinrich Barth, the first traveller
to explore that stretch of the Niger in detail, heard stories of his fate which
proved what an immense excitement the mysterious appearance of this
European traveller, in his solitary boat, had caused among the surrounding
tribes, [Christopher Lloyd, The Search for the Niger].
Recorded shipping weight 2000g.
Shipped and insured by recorded delivery
John Murray
London
1815
First edition
Very good
29.5 x 23 cm
For further details and and to bid visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
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