1813: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in the Years 1795, 1796 & 1797

Travels In The Interior Districts Of Africa:
Performed Under The Direction And Patronage Of The African Association, In The Years 1795, 1796, And 1797.
With An Appendix, Containing Geographical Illustrations Of Africa. By Major Rennell.

By Mungo Park, Surgeon

New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1813
 

Park, at the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks and for the African Association, set out to find the source of the Niger. He suffered through many hardships. Finally with the aid of the slave trader, Karfa Taura, he reached Gambia from whence he took an American slave ship, the "Charlestown" to the West Indies and then home. After his return, Bryan Edwards, Secretary of the African Association, published an "Abstract from the Travels into the Interior of Africa" based upon Park's account and notes. Wanting to complete his search for the source of the Niger, Park returned to Africa in 1805. He died during this expedition. This work was very popular and has become an early classic of travel literature.

Bound in brown sheep leather with gilt spine titles. 261 pages + A Negro Song + a Mandingo vocabulary + a 94 page appendix by Rennell.  7" x 4.5".