Travels in the Interior of Africa
Mungo Park
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Mungo Park, a Scottish surgeon and explorer, was sent out by the 'Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa' after Major Houghton failed to return, to discover the if the River Niger was a tributary of either the river Senegal or Gambia in South Africa. This is the story of his first trip. The journey had many challenges, such as language, religions, imprisonment and robbery. Most of the trip he had nothing but his tattered clothes, a horse, a pocket compass and his hat where he kept his notes. After first following the Gambia River, he finally was the first European to reached the Niger River at Ségou. He continued along the Niger another 80 miles to Silla, where he had to turn around as he had no way of continuing without procuring more supplies. He then returned to England by boat, via America. (Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson) (11 hr 58 min)
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A very interesting insight into Africa at that time.
A LibriVox Listener
Interesting to hear a first hand account of the incredibly high level of slavery of Africans by africans and what a small percentage were actually sold to white European traders
Wambui
The book is a good historical account but the reading could do with improvement
hard to listen to
A LibriVox Listener
Reader is difficult to listen to ... strange inflection
chris Crawford
Reading is really tough to listen to, at least for me.
Not a bad book.. Well read as well
Abdullah Muslem
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