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  1. 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
  2. Mungo Park: Writher Surgeon and West African Explorer (Scots' Lives) by Mark Duffill, 1999-09
  3. Great African travellers: From Bruce and Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston, 1890
  4. Great African travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone, Stanley, and Cameron by William Henry Giles Kingston, 1885

1. Biography Of The Scots Explorer Mungo Park
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2. Biography Mungo Park - African History Archives
African History Blog Archives November 25, 2003 Main November 30, 2003 Biography Mungo Park Park, a Scottish surgeon and explorer
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4. Mungo Park, Explorer
Mungo Park (17711806) Explorer Trained botanist and physician who first explored the African interior, sailing up the Gambia River, in 1795
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5. Mungo Park Writher Surgeon And West African Explorer (Scots' Lives)
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6. Mungo Park
Mungo Park. Mungo Park (September 20, 1771 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. Information about Mungo Park with useful links
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7. Author Works By Ruth Park
She claims to be a descendant of Dr Mungo Park, the African explorer.Some of her most famous works include
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8. Ruth Park - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
She claims to be a descendant of Dr Mungo Park, the African explorer. Some of her most famous works include The Harp in the South (1948)
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9. African Explorers Mungo Park
explorer mungo park Africa explorers. Behaim, Martin Cadamosto, Alvise da -Dias, Bartolomeu - Eannes, Gil - Eberhardt, Isabella - Henry the Navigator
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Explorer Mungo Park Home Arctic Explorers General Resources Antarctica Explorers General Resources Africa Explorers Behaim, Martin Cadamosto, Alvise da Dias, Bartolomeu Eannes, Gil ... Speke, John Hanning New World Explorers Albanel, Charles Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Brûlé, Étienne Cabot, John ... Vespucci, Amerigo World Explorers Cook, James Da Gama, Vasco Drake, Sir Francis General Resources ... Zheng He (Cheng Ho) Mungo Park _A good biography with highlighted text that will link you to related information. - Text only - From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Park Park, Mungo _Brief encyclopedic entry about Park's exploration for those of you who need only the basic facts. - Text only - From The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Park-Mun.html Web archaeolink.com Top of Page

10. African Explorer David Livingstone
Richard Livingstone, David - park, mungo - Speke, John Hanning The explorerDavid Livingstone_ Learn about the Scottish explorer,
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Explorer David Livingstone Home Arctic Explorers General Resources Antarctica Explorers General Resources Africa Explorers Behaim, Martin Cadamosto, Alvise da Dias, Bartolomeu Eannes, Gil ... Speke, John Hanning New World Explorers Albanel, Charles Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Brûlé, Étienne Cabot, John ... Vespucci, Amerigo World Explorers Cook, James Da Gama, Vasco Drake, Sir Francis General Resources ... Zheng He (Cheng Ho) David Livingstone _"For more than 30 years David Livingstone worked in Africa as a medical missionary and traveled the continent from the equator to the Cape and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. In so doing, he gained worldwide fame as an explorer and strongly influenced the way successive generations have thought about Africa." This is a biography. - Illustrated - From chirundu.com - http://www.chirundu.com/history/livingstone.htm David Livingstone _In 1857, Livingstone presented a speech at Cambridge in which he discussed his reasons for spending so much time in Africa. What you'll find here is an excerpt from that speech. - Text only - From the Cooper Union - http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/coreclasses/hss3/d_livingstone.html

11. Biography: Mungo Park
mungo park, a Scottish surgeon and explorer, was sent out by the Associationfor Promoting the Discovery of Biography mungo park. african History Blog
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Biography: Mungo Park
Mungo Park, a Scottish surgeon and explorer, was sent out by the 'Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa' to discover the course of the River Niger. Having achieved a degree of fame from his first trip, carried out alone and on foot, he returned to Africa with a party of 40 Europeans, all of whom lost their lives in the adventure. Find out more...
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13. Mungo Park - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
mungo park (September 20, 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the africancontinent. park in 1794 offered his services to the african Association,
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Mungo Park Title illustration of Reisen in Central-Afrika - von Mungo Park bis auf Dr. Barth u. Dr. Vogel Mungo Park September 10 ) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was born in Selkirkshire , Scotland, at Foulshiels on the Yarrow the farm which his father rented from the Duke of Buccleuch . He was the seventh in a family of thirteen. Having received a good education, he was apprenticed to a surgeon named Thomas Anderson in Selkirk, and then attended the University of Edinburgh for three sessions (1789-1791), obtaining the surgical diploma. By his brother-in-law, James Dickson , a botanist, he was introduced to Sir Joseph Banks , then president of the Royal Society , and thus obtained the post of assistant-surgeon on board the "Worcester" East Indiaman. In this capacity he made the voyage in 1792 to Benkulen, in Sumatra , and on his return in 1793 he contributed a description of eight new Sumatran fishes to the Transactions of the Linnean Society Park in offered his services to the African Association, then looking out for a successor to Major Daniel Houghton, who had been sent out in 1790 to discover the course of the Niger and had died in the

14. MUNGO PARK - LoveToKnow Article On MUNGO PARK
park, mungo (17711806?), Scottish explorer of the Niger, park in 1794 offeredhis services to the african Association, then looking out for a successor
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MUNGO PARK
PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?), Scottish explorer of the Niger, was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, on the 20th of September 1771, at Foulshiels on the Yarrowthe farm which his father rented from the duke of Buccleuch. He was the seventh in a family of thirteen. Having received a good education, he was apprenticed to a surgeon named Thomas Anderson in Selkirk, and then attended the university of Edinburgh for three sessions (I 7891791), obtaining the surgical diploma. By his brother-in-law, James Dickson, a botanist of repute, he was introduced to Sir Joseph Banks, then president of the Royal Society, and through his good offices obtained the post of assistant-surgeon on board the Worcester East Indiaman. In this capacity he made the voyage in 1792 to Benkulen, in Sumatra, and on his return in 1793 he contributed a description of eight new Sumatran fishes to the Transactions of the Linnean Society. J. Thomsons Mungo Park and the Niger (London, 1890) contains the best critical estimate of the explorer and his work. See also the Life (by Wishaw) prefixed to Journal of a Mission into the Interior of Africa in 5805 (London, 1815); H. B., Life of Mungo Park (Edinburgh, 1835); and an interesting passage in Lockharts Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. ii. EDWARDS AMASA PARK PARLA KIMEDI To properly cite this MUNGO PARK article in your work, copy the complete reference below:

15. Mungo Park (1774-1806), Explorer
National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for mungo park including mungo park Natural historian and african explorer. The narrative of his african
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16. Park, Mungo
park, mungo. Scottish explorer who traced the course of the Niger River 1795–97.He disappeared and probably drowned during a second african expedition
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Or search the encyclopaedia: Park, Mungo Travels in the Interior of Africa Park spent 18 months in the Niger Basin while tracing the river. Even though he did not achieve his goal of reaching Timbuktu, he proved that it was feasible to travel through the interior of Africa.
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17. Entrez PubMed
Scottish physician as african explorer.mungo park (17711806). Shampo MA, Kyle RA.Publication Types Biography Historical Article MeSH Terms
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18. Mungo Park: Free Web Books, Online
When he came back the african Society was in want of an explorer, Life andTravels of mungo park in Central Africa from Project Gutenberg
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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.
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19. African History - Book Reviews
Includes african American explorer, George Washington Williams. park, mungo Travels in the Interior of Africa Full text on-line. Vol.
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The 153 Club
Has a large number of reproduced text and images from books by early travelers in the Western Sahara desert, photographs (salt trade, people) by Jim Mann Taylor and others, articles on the Arbre du Ténéré now in a Niger museum, on French military forts, Saharan rock art, giraffe engravings in Niger. Excerpts from travelers' accounts include: Leo Africanus Leo Africanus on Timbuctoo with illus. by René Caillié's and Felix Dubois, Ibn Battuta . "The 153 Club is for Sahara Desert travellers. The Club takes its name from the old Michelin 153 map of NW Africa." Includes book lists. Maintained by Jim Mann Taylor, based in the U.K. http://www.manntaylor.com/153.html
1421, the Year China Discovered the World
Site for the book, 1421 The Year China Discovered the World , by Gavin Menzies with information on Chinese maritime explorers including Admiral Zheng He . "The author's conclusion that Chinese seafarers and concubines settled in Malaysia, India

20. Janus: Africa Miscellanea
mungo park (17711806), african explorer, was born on 10 September 1771 atFowlshiels, a farm near Selkirk, Scotland. He was educated at home and at Selkirk
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