Travels in the Interior of Africa 非洲之旅-青春文学-文学语科-太极之巅书单号

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Travels in the Interior of Africa 非洲之旅目录

Introduction
Bibliography
Author's Preface
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA
Notes to the text

Travels in the Interior of Africa 非洲之旅内容简介

In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to depend for his survival on the charity of African villagers. Before he reached the Niger, he endured months of captivity in the camp of a Moorish chief. Yet throughout his travels, Park maintained a remarkable empathy for African societies and beliefs. He recorded what he saw as accurately as he could, and without presuming European superiority.

Travels in the Interior of Africa 非洲之旅作者简介

Mungo Park was born on 10 September 1771, at Foulshiels, Scotland. He excelled academically, studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His first major contribution was to be in the field of natural science, discovering eight new species of fish off Sumatra. His travels in Africa however, and his courageous attempts to map the course of the Niger river sealed his place in history. Many conflicting reports exist regarding Park's death, but it is generally accepted to have been in January 1806, on the Niger. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.