Biography of mango park

Mungo Park lived from 11 September to December or January A native of Selkirkshire, he made his name as an early explorer of the African continent. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Mungo Park was born at Foulshiels near Selkirk, where his father was a successful farmer. The seventh of a family of thirteen he was well educated. After leaving school he took up an apprenticeship with a surgeon in Selkirk, then spent the three years from to gaining his formal qualification as a surgeon.

Park's first job was as an assistant-surgeon on board the East India ship Worcester. While on board he made a trip to Sumatra and after returning to Scotland produced an academic paper describing eight previously unknown fishes he had found there.

In Park applied to the Africa Association to mount an expedition to build on the work of Major Daniel Houghton, who had gone to Africa in to

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Mungo Park (explorer)

Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent

For other uses, see Mungo Park (disambiguation).

Mungo Park (10 September – ) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an utforskning of the upper Niger River around , he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.

If the African Association was the "beginning of the age of African exploration" by Europeans, then Mungo Park was its first successful explorer; he set a standard for all who followed. Park was the first Westerner to have recorded travels in the huvud portion of the Niger, and through his popular book introduced the europeisk public to a vast unexplored continent which influence

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Mungo Park

Mungo Park was an intrepid and daring traveller and explorer, hailing originally from Scotland. He explored West Africa during the tumultuous 18th century, and was actually the first Westerner to travel to the central part of the Niger River. Throughout his short life he was imprisoned by a Moorish chief, suffered untold hardships, travelled thousands of miles within Africa and around the globe, succumbed to fever and folly, and was even mistakenly presumed dead. His life may have been short but it was filled with daring, danger and determination. He is righty remembered as an explorer among the ranks and caliber of Captain Cook or Ernest Shackleton. The son of a tenant farmer from Selkirk, what was it that drove Park to travel so far from the salty shores of Scotland into deepest, darkest, Africa?

Mungo Park was born on 11th September , and died in at the incredibly young age of He grew up on a tenant farm in Selkirkshire. The farm was owned by the Duke of Buccleuch,