While Mungo Park is embarked on the first of his two expeditions to chart the course of the Niger River, scoundrel Ned Rise is on his own outlandish career in London. He eventually becomes Park's Sancho Panza.
year: 1983
call number/section: 1000
subjects: park, mungo, 1771-1806, fiction, explorers, africa, west, fiction, west africa, biographical fiction, historical fiction, africa, west, discovery and exploration, fiction, west africa, exploration