(Paperback)

Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead, and the tale of his perilous journey published in 1799 was greeted with great acclaim.

(Paperback, New edition)

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid recollection and the most readable of all the classics of African exploration.