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 illustr

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Park was the first European to reach the Niger. His “ Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and it’s scientific observations on the botany and the meteorology of the region… have remained of lasting value” ( Printing the Mind of Man ). Although this copy lacks the list of subscribers, it does contain the often missing postscript. Cox I, 394-95; Ibrahim Hilmy II, 93; Graesse V, 136.

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