Mungo Park's Ghost: The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa by Dane Kennedy

Mungo Park's Ghost: The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa

Dane Kennedy

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In 1816 the British sent two large, ambitious expeditions to Africa, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. Their shared goal was to complete the unfinished mission of Mungo Park, who had dis...

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