Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of ... Wikipedia
Born: September 11, 1771, Selkirkshire, United Kingdom
Died: 1806 (age 35 years), Bussa, Nigeria
Education: The University of Edinburgh and Selkirk Grammar School
Nationality: British
Parents: Mungo RN Park and Elspeth Hislop
Spouse: Allison Anderson (m. 1799–1806)
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In 1805 Park returned to the Niger, commanding a British government expedition to extend commerce and geographical knowledge. Though better equipped and ...
Scottish physician Mungo Park would conduct two expeditions to West Africa in the late 1790s and early 1800s, in search of the legendary city of Timbuktu.