| LC control no. | n 50050319 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Park, Mungo, 1771-1806 |
| Associated country | Africa, West |
| Birth date | 1771-09-11 |
| Death date | 1806 |
| Place of birth | Selkirk (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Mali |
| Affiliation | University of Edinburgh |
| Profession or occupation | Explorers Physicians Botanists |
| Found in | Mungo Park and the Niger, 1890: p. 37 (b. Sept. 10, 1771 near Selkirk) p. 48 (explorer of West Africa) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Park, Mungo; explorer, physician, botanist; born 11 September 1771 in Selkirk, Scotland; studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh; was commissioned to undertake exploration in West Africa on behalf of the African Association (1794); sailed for West Africa on the Endeavour (1795); first European to return safely having observed the west-east course of the River Niger; published acclaimed and much reprinted book of first expedition, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799); traveled on a second expedition to West Africa (1805); second work was posthumously published, based on surviving papers and reports, as a biographical commemoration of a pioneering explorer (1815); died in 1806, possibly in Mali) |
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