Title: Mungo Parks Wundarzt und Reisenden im Dienst der afrikanischen Gesellschaft neueste und leßte Reise ins Innere von Afrika nebst dem Tode dieses merkwürdigen Reisenden aus seinem Tagebuche und den Relazionen [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Mungo Parks Wundarzt und Reisenden im Dienst der afrikanischen Gesellschaft neueste und leßte Reise ins Innere von Afrika nebst dem Tode dieses merkwürdigen Reisenden aus seinem Tagebuche und den Relazionen seiner übrig gebliebenen Gefährten niedergelegt bey der afrikanischen Gesellschaft zu London. Herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Harry Wilkens. Vollständische Ueberseßung
.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. xvi, 384. First and only edition of the spurious continuation of Park’s narrative of his last expedition in 1807, circulated mainly in Germany. Park had disappeared in 1806 while tracing the Niger River past Timbuktu, and although his diary through 16 November 1805 was recovered, he had in fact drowned in its rapids in April 1806. That remained unconfirmed until 1809-1810, however, and meanwhile this account of his last adventures and death (killed by natives in a stony desert) was forged – based in part on the genuine surviving diary – by the no-doubt imaginary ‘Harry Wilkens’, for the Hamburg publisher Müller. See R. W. Howgego, Encyclopedia of exploration: invented and apocryphal narratives of travel. Potts Point, New South Wales, 2013. P5, his alternative ‘longer title.’
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