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Through the Interior Districts of Africa
by Park, Mungo (1771-1806) . Rennell, James (1742-1830)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0405017189
- ISBN 13
- 9780405017186
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About This Item
New York United States: New York Arno Press, 1971. Hardcover Through the Interior Districts of Africa physician travellers Mungo (1771-1806). Rennell, James (1742-1830) Park.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 371 pages; Description: xxviii, 372, xcii p. Illus. , fold. Maps, port. 26 cm. Fine Facsimile Reprint from the copy in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine..(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto. Hardback.
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- Title
- Through the Interior Districts of Africa
- Author
- Park, Mungo (1771-1806) . Rennell, James (1742-1830)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0405017189
- ISBN 13
- 9780405017186
- Publisher
- New York Arno Press
- Place of Publication
- New York United States
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Through the Interior Districts of Africa
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto
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