Charles W. J. Withers

Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger is about geography, exploration, and a 2000-year-old geographical mystery. By the eighteenth century, the river Niger was, to Europeans, a source of wonder, potential wealth, and a two-part problem. The first part of this mystery was solved by Mungo Park in 1796. Park's death in 1806, while attempting to solve...