Tuesday 10 June 2014 at 18:37
First published in 1799, this remarkable book is the Scottish explorer Mungo Park's account of his journey through Senegal and Mali to the central portion of the Niger River, the first time a Westerner is known to have reached such central regions.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/mungo-parks-travels-in-the-interior-of-africa-1858/