Ik heb hier een boek te koop met de titel The Life and Travels of Mungo Park: With Supplementary Details of Recent Discovery in Africa van Mungo Park. Uitgegeven door W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell: Edinburgh, (ongedateerd) Prijsplaat gedateerd 1904.


Rode decoratieve linnen platten met vergulde letters en illustraties van twee pauwen op het voorplat. Vergulde letters en bloemenillustraties op de rug. De omslag is in goede staat, met lichte slijtplekken aan de randen van het plat. De inhoud vertoont ouderdomssporen en de pagina's zijn over het algemeen schoon. Er is wat foxing door het hele boek. Bevat frontispice, decoratieve beginhoofdstukken en sluitstukken. Stevige binding, over het algemeen in zeer goede staat. 336 pagina's, 20 x 14 cm.

On 22 May 1795, Park left Portsmouth, England, on the brig Endeavour, a vessel travelling to Gambia to trade for beeswax and ivory. On 21 June 1795, he reached the Gambia River and ascended it 200 miles (300 km) to a British trading station named Pisania. On 2 December, accompanied by two local guides, he started for the unknown interior. He chose the route crossing the upper Senegal basin and through the semi-desert region of Kaarta. The journey was full of difficulties, and at Ludamar he was imprisoned by a Moorish chief for four months. On 1 July 1796, he escaped, alone and with nothing but his horse and a pocket compass, and on the 21st reached the long-sought Niger River at Ségou, being the first European to do so. He followed the river downstream 80 miles (130 km) to Silla, where he was obliged to turn back, lacking the resources to go further. On his return journey, begun on 29 July, he took a route more to the south than that originally followed, keeping close to the Niger River as far as Bamako, thus tracing its course for some 300 miles (500 km). At Kamalia he fell ill, and owed his life to the kindness of a man in whose house he lived for seven months. Eventually he reached Pisania again on 10 June 1797, returning to Scotland by way of Antigua on 22 December. He had been thought dead, and his return home with news of his exploration of the Niger River evoked great public enthusiasm.