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Memory and the history of geographical knowledge: the commemoration of Mungo Park, African explorer [An article from: Journal of Historical Geography] by C.W.J. Withers, 2004-04-01 Mungo Park West African Explorer by Mark Duffill, 1999-01-01 Mungo Park West African Explorer Mungo Park: Writher Surgeon and West African Explorer (Scots' Lives) by Mark Duffill, 1999-09 Mungo Park the African Traveler by Kenneth Lupton, 1979-02-22 Great African travellers: From Bruce and Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston, 1890 Great African travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone, Stanley, and Cameron by William Henry Giles Kingston, 1885

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21. Janus: Africa Miscellanea
    72 (December 1962), including the article An apparition of mungo park (pp. Origination Baines, Thomas, 18221875, artist and african explorer.  
    http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0115/RCMS 113

22. Scran - Mezzotint And Stipple Engraving Of The Explorer Mungo Park, 1771-1806
    mungo park obtained his surgical diploma from Edinburgh University and then In 1794 park offered his services to the african association to explore the  
    http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-523-092-C&searchdb=scran

23. Travels In The Interior Of Africa - Volume 1 By Mungo Park- Chapter 1 From Nalan
    Travels in the Interior of Africa Volume 1 By mungo park- Chapter 1 - from Nalanda When he came back the african Society was in want of an explorer,  
    http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/travel/africa1/cha
    
    Extractions: INTRODUCTION Mungo Park was born on the 10th of September, 1771, the son of a farmer at Fowlshiels, near Selkirk. After studying medicine in Edinburgh, he went out, at the age of twenty-one, assistant-surgeon in a ship bound for the East Indies. When he came back the African Society was in want of an explorer, to take the place of Major Houghton, who had died. Mungo Park volunteered, was accepted, and in his twenty-fourth year, on the 22nd of May, 1795, he sailed for the coasts of Senegal, where he arrived in June. Thence he proceeded on the travels of which this book is the record. He was absent from England for a little more than two years and a half; returned a few days before Christmas, 1797. He was then twenty-six years old. The African Association published the first edition of his travels as "Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7, by Mungo Park, with an Appendix containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa, by Major Rennell." Park married, and settled at Peebles in medical practice, but was persuaded by the Government to go out again. He sailed from Portsmouth on the 30th of January, 1805, resolved to trace the Niger to its source or perish in the attempt. He perished. The natives attacked him while passing through a narrow strait of the river at Boussa, and killed him, with all that remained of his party, except one slave. The record of this fatal voyage, partly gathered from his journals, and closed by evidences of the manner of his death, was first published in 1815, as "The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in 1805, by Mungo Park, together with other Documents, Official and Private, relating to the same Mission. To which is prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park."

24. Travel & Exploration In Africa, African Travel, Voyages, Rare & Out-of-Print Boo
    park, mungo; The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805; Travels across central Africa by the foremost african explorer.  
    http://www.horizonbook.com/africa.html
    
    Extractions: ADAMSON, George; Bwana Game; The Life Story of George Adamson. Adamson, wife of Joy the author of Born Free, Living Free, here writes of his long career as a game warden in Kenya, his raising, rehabilitation and friendship with lions, and of his other careers, including animal rescue operations. Much on East African wildlife and the people of the area. US$10. bookID # 11295 ADAMSON, Joy; The Spotted Sphinx. The author of 'Born Free' and a series on Elsa the lion here writes of her experience with Pippa, a cheetah, and her attempt to restore it to the wilds of Kenya. Appendices include cheetah illnesses and treatment and comparison table of development of leopard, lion and cheetah. There is also a much more common US edition. The illustrations are quite remarkable including all family members. The cheetah is the world's fastest mammal. US$8. bookID # 10204 AKELEY, Mary L. Jobe, foreword by Henry Fairfield Osborn; Carl Akeley's Africa; The Account of the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. A description of extensive travels in central and eastern Africa including Tanganyika, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, in which Carl Akeley, one of the most famous of 20th century African explorers, died. With reference to George Eastman.

25. PPE - Biography Pe
    Descendant of Dr mungo park (17711806) the african explorer. Awarded 1993 LloydO Neil Magpie Award for services to Australian book industry.  
    http://www.embassy.org.nz/encycl/pepedia.htm

26. The National Archives | Search The Archives | National Register Of Archives | De
    park, mungo (17711806) african explorer. 5 records noted. Scope, c1804-53family corresp and papers. Repository, National Library of Scotland,  
    http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P22092

27. Exploring Africa - Island 4
    By mungo park, surgeon. With an appendix containing geographical illustrations explorer, an army officer with the Royal african Corps in Sierra Leone,  
    http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa4.html

28. Booktrust - Information About New Books, Publishers And Prizes
    The Life of James Bruce, african explorer and Adventurer (HarperCollins) Water Music (Granta) fictional account of mungo park s african adventures  
    http://www.bookinformation.co.uk/reviews/books.php4?bookno=13

29. Africa
    A biography of the african traveller and explorer, author of From the Niger to 76 park, mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Performed in  
    http://www.sotherans.co.uk/Catalogues/Occasional/AfricaEgyptIslands.html
    
    Extractions: 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled on spine, contrasting lettering piece; pp. xvi + 351; one folding map; slightly rubbed, a little fading to spine, repair to fold of map, a very good copy. 8vo edition - a 4to edition had appeared in 1790. The African Association was founded in 1788. "Its activities mark the beginning of African exploration in a systematic way, as well as the furthering of British trade and political prestige on that continentThe first concern of the African Association was the River Niger - where was its source and what was the direction of its flow, etc. The first four expeditions were unfortunate for the leaders, Ledyard, Lucas, Horneman, and Houghton, all of whom either died while enroute or were murdered by the fanatical Moors. The fifth, that of Mungo Park, was rich in geographical results, though he too died on his second expedition" (Cox). The map, compiled by James Rennell, shows the extent of geographical knowledge of north Africa at this time.

30. African Specialist Features And Articles
    mungo park, the Scottish explorer who tried to trace the source of the Niger South Africa’s Kruger National park was the first wildlife reserve to be  
    http://www.africaguide.com/features/
    
    Extractions: It's bizarre to find that there's a rush hour every day on what is seemingly a sleepy little coral island, where fig trees grow from the ruins of old buildings that date back to boom days of slave- and ivory trading. ... Originally published in - Travel Africa Magazine Saadani National Park - A Swahili Coast Secret NEW

31. Best Western Hotels In The Scottish Borders
    The Scottish Borders can also claim St Columba for their own, poet James Hogg (ofEttrick Shepherd fame) as well as doctor and african explorer mungo park.  
    http://www.bestwestern.co.uk/regions/region-03-scottishborders.aspx
    
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32. Rare Books - Important Acquisitions - National Library Of Scotland
    The african explorer mungo park (17711806) hailed from a farm on the estate ofthe Duke of Buccleuch near Selkirk. He was apprenticed as a surgeon before  
    http://www.nls.uk/collections/rarebooks/acquisitions/index.cfm?startRow=61&SORTB

33. Selkirk Adventure Travel - Selkirk Travel Guide
    Selkirk was the hometown of the african explorer mungo park (17711806), whoseexploits could have made a great Harrison Ford movie. park was a doctor,  
    http://away.com/destination-overview/Selkirk-323032-travel-guide.html
    
    Extractions: Destination Guides Interest Guides ... Camera Reviews Search for Home Selkirk Travel Guide Australia-Pacific COMPARE PRICES on all Selkirk Hotels Compare prices and availibility on major travel sites with one click COMPARE PRICES on all Flights to Selkirk Compare prices and availibility on major travel sites with one click 65km (40 miles) SE of Edinburgh, 118 km (73 miles) SE of Glasgow, 11km (7 miles) S of Galashiels In the heart of Sir Walter Scott country, Selkirk is a great base if you want to explore many of the region's historic homes, including Bowhill and Traquair House. Jedburgh and Melrose offer more to see and do, but this ancient royal burgh can easily occupy a morning of your time. Selkirk was the hometown of the African explorer Mungo Park (1771-1806), whose exploits could have made a great Harrison Ford movie. Park was a doctor, but won fame for exploring the River Niger; he drowned while escaping in a canoe from hostile natives. A statue of him is at the east end of High Street in Mungo Park. Sir Walter Scott: Master of Romance Today it's hard to imagine the fame this poet/novelist enjoyed as the best-selling author of his time. His works are no longer so widely read, but in his day, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was considered a master storyteller. He invented a new genre, the romantic adventure in a panoramic setting. He created lively characters and realistic pictures of Scottish life and customs in such works as

34. Schoonove | The Lexus & The Olive Tree Considered
    The first European to explore part of the Niger was mungo park, park alsoreturned to the Niger, in 1805, as the first african explorer to be sponsored  
    http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2001_07-09/bullington_0801/bulli
    
    Extractions: About the author promising relief from food shortages and threatened famine. Substantial expanses of greenery now mark the orange-brown landscape; dry ponds and riverbeds are filling; and the animals again have adequate forage and watering holes. Humans, however, must wait another month or two before the millet, now eight or ten inches high, is ready for harvest. And they must pray that the rains do not end prematurely, as they did last year, causing much of the crop to wither before it ripened. Meanwhile, a substantial amount of food aid has arrived from several foreign donors, including the US. (CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Africare, and Helen Keller International are distributing USAID-provided food through food-for-work projects.) Soaring grain prices stabilized and then fell, and it appears that traditional coping strategies – selling off livestock, eating leaves and other "famine food," cutting consumption to one meal per day or less, moving to towns to find temporary work or handouts – will enable everyone except the weakest and most vulnerable to survive until the next harvest. The Strong Brown God

35. IExplore Community: Mali Tourism, Things To Do In Mali, Mali Travel
    In the late 1700s the african Association sent a Scottish explorer to Africa totravel the Niger. His name was mungo park. mungo mapped the Niger,  
    http://community.iexplore.com/planning/journalEntryFreeform.asp?JournalID=5799&E

36. Fact Or Fiction
    Scottish explorer mungo park and his ventures into the interior of West Africabetween In the more recent mungo park the african Traveler (1971),  
    http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/annex/COMM/english/mah8420/WaterMusic.htm
    
    Extractions: T. Coraghessan Boyle 's Water Music Matthew Henry In arguing that history does not exist except as text, it does not stupidly and "gleefully" deny that the past existed, but only that its accessibility to us now is entirely conditioned by textuality. We cannot know the past except through its texts. Linda Hutcheon (1988) The value in this alternative (i.e., postmodern) approach is two-fold: it undermines both the traditional belief in a singular historical "reality" and the traditional hierarchy that values history (fact) over literature (fiction). Postmodern historical novelists wish to expunge such traditions in favor of views that are less rigid and that accept interpretation and indeterminacy in regard to history. Thus, their novels strive to highlight the subjective nature of the supposedly objective narratives of history and to underscore that these narratives offer not the truth but only a possible truth. Boyle is acutely aware of how both those directly involved in historical events and subsequent historians have rewritten the past to conform to individual or collective interpretations. His intent, then, is to reveal the fictionality of documented history. Thus, Boyle combines in his writings what has been traditionally separated and labeled as "fact" and "fiction," intentionally blurring and questioning the rigid distinctions between these two categories. In short, Boyle's task and practice is to self-consciously rewrite history through fiction to point out the relativity of textualized history and the fallacy of believing that historical texts embody a singular "truth." Such practice is at the basis of much of Boyle's writing, but I believe it is displayed best in Boyle's first novel

37. Famous Explorers In West Africa : Chronology
    Famous explorer mungo park overlapping in the african jungle and seeing a lion.Illustration from Life and travels of mungo park mungo park, Edinburgh,  
    http://perso.wanadoo.fr/laurent.berte/Html/chronol_explorateurs_2.htm

38. Social Studies School Service Article
    _ Prince Henry was (a) an explorer of the african interior (b) responsible _ mungo park, David Livingstone, and Henry Stanley all explored  
    http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@msOFqqJcQkNno/Pages/article.html?article@SHL

39. Water Music
    thief and whoremaster, and mungo park, explorer, through London s seamy mungo park, at a distinct disadvantage in the emirate of an african ruler.  
    http://www.tcboyle.com/public_htm/music.html
    
    Extractions: Water Music is my first novel. It was published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1981 (though it actually appeared in early January, 1982), and was subsequently published by Penguin in soft cover, now in its 21st edition. This is a wild ride of a book, the one that taught me to follow my imagination, and it consists of 104 chapters, each a story in itself. It was three years in the writing. The back cover of the current Penguin edition has this to say: "Funny, bawdy, full of T.C. Boyle's inimitable flights of imaginative and stylistic fancy, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlandsto their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger." I remember that when the book was half-finished at about 250 pp., both my editor and agent advised me to cut out the Ned Rise story, worrying in concert that the novel was getting out of hand; I assured them that I had a plan and that Ned Rise had to stay. I hope I was right. In any case, I've never looked back.

40. Biblio: Search For Author: Boyle, Title: Water Music, Keywords:
    mungo park based on a real-life african explorer- and Ned Rise- ascoundrel-pimp- thief- and cheat- travel about Africa and meet up with avaried assortment  
    http://www.biblio.com/search.php?tid=1224&auid=185&stage=1&author=Boyle&title=Wa

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