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    Collections series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction and Notes by Bernard Waites, The Open UniversityIn 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa… is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to ... En savoir plus

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    Collections series What is Europe?
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