Mungo Park

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Park, Mungo

 

Born Sept. 10, 1771, in Foulshiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland; died in 1806. Scottish explorer of West Africa.

From 1795 to 1797, Park traveled from the mouth of the Gambia River eastward to the city of Ségou, on the upper Niger. He then traveled about 50 km down the river and collected information on the river’s course to Tombouctou (Timbuktu). In 1805–06 he descended the river from the Ségou area to rapids near the village of Bussa, on the lower Niger, where he drowned.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Puteshestvie vo vnutrennost’ Afriki …, parts 1–2. St. Petersburg, 1806–08.

REFERENCE

Gornung, M. B., Iu. G., Lipets, and I. N. Oleinikov. Istoriia otkrytiia i issledovaniia Afriki. Moscow, 1973.

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