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One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told.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 would be solved by Mungo Park in 1796. Park?s death in 1806 in failing to solve the second prompted other expeditions which sought to determine the cause of his death and to trace the Niger?s course.This book offers the first full length biography of Mungo Park for over forty years. It traces the expeditions who followed him. It documents for the first time Park?s afterlife - how and why he was commemorated long after his death. The book shows how the Niger was slowly ?revealed,? in texts, maps and through indigenous knowledge. The Niger problem was finally solved by exploration in 1830. But years before, it had already been solved by ?armchair geographers? who

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