Majestic River
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'Mungo Park died in 1806 before realising his mission to trace the course of the Niger. The author looks at the life and legacy of this famed explorer'
» The Saltire Society
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Birlinn Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781780277998
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
- Priser
- Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2023
Anmeldelser
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'Mungo Park died in 1806 before realising his mission to trace the course of the Niger. The author looks at the life and legacy of this famed explorer'
» The Saltire Society
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'Punchy, eloquent, and infused with forensic research ...This book is in all senses a geographical epic'
» Nicholas Crane, writer and presenter, BBC Two’s Coast and author of The Making of the British Landsc
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'This deeply researched and sumptuously illustrated book is at once an exciting new biography of Mungo Park, a wide-ranging history of the decades-long efforts by the British to explore the Niger, and an illuminating study of the evolution of geography and cartography as fields of scientific knowledge'
» Dane Kennedy, author of The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia
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'A fascinating and illuminating read'
» Megan Amato, Scottish Field
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'Both an admirable biography of the explorer Mungo Park and also a thoughtful meditation on early British involvement in West Africa'
» Allan Massie, The Scotsman
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'It's always thrilling to stumble across a book that is so well researched and written that as a reader you get the sense it will be the definitive account of the subject it covers for quite some time to come. "Majestic River" is one of those books'
» Ken Lussey, Undiscovered Scotland