81. Microsoft PressPass - MUNGO PARK: MICROSOFT'S ONLINE ADVENTURE MAGAZINE TO UNLEA will be headed by noted explorer, multimedia adventurer the leader of the only Africannation never Discover the Tekeze Expedition and mungo park Sneak Preview http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/sept96/MUNGOPR.asp

All Products Support Search microsoft.com Guide ... Site Map Search for Advanced Search PressPass Home Microsoft News Legal News International News Consumer News Corporate Info Investor Relations Community Affairs Microsoft Research Events ... Executive E-Mail Archives by Month: Press Releases Top Stories MUNGO PARK: MICROSOFT'S ONLINE ADVENTURE MAGAZINE TO UNLEASH SNEAK PREVIEW EDITION SEPTEMBER 5 Web-zine to feature live broadcast of first descent of Africa's Tekeze River and first live chat with Prime Minister of Ethiopia (http://mungopark.MSN.com/) will launch its first interactive expedition, allowing people around the world to follow a team of explorers as they attempt the first descent of the Tekeze River in Africa. To mark this occasion His Excellency, Meles Zenawi, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia will host in his first-ever live Internet chat. One-on-one with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia One of the first prime ministers to make himself available to a world wide audience via the Internet, Mr. Zenawi will conduct the live chat at 12 noon EST, September 5 th . This will be an official send off for the Mungo Park expedition down the Tekeze, an area of Ethiopia that has been closed for more than twenty years due to revolution. The expedition will be headed by noted explorer, multimedia adventurer and Mungo Park's editor-in-chief, Richard Bangs.

82. Travel Intelligence | Books On Niger the Niger section in this West african guide in the interior of Africa by park, MungoClassic account describing the scottish explorer's initial journey http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/books/bksbyplce_86.html

suggest a book To order any of these books we advise calling The Travel Bookshop on 020-7229 5260, or email us. For maps call Stanfords on 020-7836 1321. History of West Africa Nomads of Niger by Beckwith, C. Black Nile: Mungo Park and the search for the Niger by Brent, Peter Lonely Planet: West Africa by Else, D. Sahara Handbook by Glen, Simon Travels in the interior of Africa by Park, Mungo In Sorcery's Shadow : A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger by Stoller, P. Books on Niger History of West Africa Excellent two-volume reference work that's invaluable to anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of West African history. Nomads of Niger by Beckwith, C. Thsi book gives a wonderful photographic account of eighteen months spent with the Wodaabe of Niger. It has good text too. Black Nile: Mungo Park and the search for the Niger by Brent, Peter Brent's history of the life of famous explorer Mungo Park. The author demonstrates that the underlying principles of exploration were fundamentally exploitive and racist. Lonely Planet: West Africa by Else, D.

83. Explorers Of Africa - EnchantedLearning.com Eannes' journey in 1434 opened the african coast to Magellan (14801521) was a Portugueseexplorer who led park, mungo mungo park (1771-1806) was a Scottish http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/africa.shtml

Please help keep Enchanted Learning online. Click here for more information on our honor system. $20.00/year or other amount (directly by Credit Card $20.00/year (transaction via PayPal Other Amount (transaction via PayPal An Enchanted Learning Web Page Zoom Explorers A B C D ... Glossary of Exploration Terms Explorers of Africa More information on Africa ALBUQUERQUE, AFONSO DE Afonso de Albuquerque (14-1515) was a Portuguese soldier and explorer who sailed to the Spice Islands (the Moluccas, a group of Islands in Indonesia) in 1507-1511, trying to monopolize trade with this area; from Europe, he sailed around Africa to the Indian Ocean. He was appointed the Viceroy of India by King Emmanuel in 1509. He forcibly destroyed the Indian city of Calicut in January, 1510, and took Goa (in southern India) in March, 1510, claiming Goa for Portugal. BATTUTA, ABU ABDULLAH IBN Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta [also spelled Buttuta] (1303-1365), was a Moroccan explorer who traveled through Africa, the Middle East, and parts of the Far East. A Muslim, he set off on a Hajj (a pilgrimage to the holy town of Mecca) from Tangier, Africa, in 1325 and traveled for almost three decades, covering over 75,000 miles (120,700 km) by boat and over land. He did sail his own boat, but was a passenger on many trading boats. In India, Buttuta was appointed a Magistrate of Delhi (1334-1341). He also traveled to China, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, and much of Africa. Buttuta later recorded his adventures in a popular book, "Travels (Rihala) of Ibn Battuta." He died in Fez, Morocco, in 1365.

84. The Glen Cafe Along towards the police station you'll find mungo park the great african exploreror as they refer to him here as the local doctor who found the source of the http://www.glencafe.co.uk/route.htm

85. Travel Writing Interior of Africa In December 1795, mungo park headed off makes his way across theWest african interior, he Note the centrality of park in the first person http://www.hku.hk/english/courses2000/2045/week8.htm

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Department of English ENLG2045: Travel Writing j Kl Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. Tel: (852) 2859 2749 Fax: (852) 2559 7139 Email: english@hkucc.hku.hk Week 8 - Questions of gender Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) Workshop Question: We might consider questions of gender in travel writing EITHER as a matter of style (e.g. tone, language use, point of view), OR thematically (e.g. sexuality, feminism, gender role discussed in the writing), OR contextually (e.g. social constraints on women travelling, patriarchal society, travel as freedom from constraint, different kinds of journey for men and women). You should each select an extract from Fussell's anthology (one already discussed in class or not) which you think raises interesting questions of gender under one of the above headings (style, theme, context). In class, I will ask each GROUP to present TWO examples. As usual, I like to hear original ideas and examples, especially where they might diverge from conventional thinking on the subject. Lecture Notes A Lady an explorer? a traveller in skirts?

86. Exploring Africa - Island 4 this first American edition of mungo park's Travels was map, which was published afterpark's second expedition an army officer with the Royal african Corps in http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa4.html

Exploring Africa Island 4: West Africa, the Niger, and the Quest for Timbuktu Mungo Park, 1771-1806; James Rennell, 1742-1830 Travels in the interior districts of Africa : performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, surgeon. With an appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell 3rd ed. London: W. Bulmer, 1799. Bookplate of Louis D. Tiemann. Donated from the library of Alfred Chapin Rogers by Mrs. Elizabeth F. Pyne. Mungo Park, 1771-1806; James Rennell, 1742-1830 Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; by Mungo Park, surgeon: with an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa: by Major Rennell Philadelphia: from the London quarto edition by James Humphreys: And Sold by him, at No. 106, South Side of Market-Street, 1800. Signature of Thomas McGehee, 1810. It is noteworthy that this first American edition of Mungo Park's Travels was printed in Philadelphia, perhaps because of links to the English Quaker involvement in the anti-slavery movement. Donated by Dr. D. Strother Pope.

87. 4 Free Essays a German missionary, who was not like mungo park or Rene Rebmann was the europeanexplorer who kept a careful record become sick and was in a african hut for 6 http://www.4freeessays.com/essays/248.shtml

PAID ADVERTISEMENT Search 4 Free Essays : Any Terms Exact Phrase Essay Categories Art And Music Biographies Creative Writing Film ... Home Famous Explorers of Africa Essay written by Unknown Mungo Park Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who led one of the first expeditions to investigate the course of the Niger river in Western Africa. Mungo Park was a 23 year-old scottish surgeon surgeon who had just returned from a journey to Sumatra on a ship of the East India Company. There he had discovered 6 species of fish, he had published descriptions in a Scientific Journal. In 1795, Park had gone to Piscina, on an offer to research further into Africa. Park had accepted and a severe fever overcame him during his journey. Park also had been captured by certain muslim leaders. After he had got out of the Prison he had wandered around and had finally found the Niger River. Park was amazed at how beautiful the River was. Park had stated "I saw with infinite pleasure, the object of my, mission". Park had returned home to London where became famous on his publications of his voyage across Africa. Later in 1806 he sailed downstream to the Bussa rapids, where he drowned, trying to escape an attack by the Africans.

88. Timbuktu, The El Dorado Of Africa Most famous of the failures was mungo park. The Scottish explorer Gordon Laingis acknowledged as the first European to reach Timbuktu, in 1826. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031901a.htm

zfp=-1 About History African History Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting in partnership with African History with Alistair Boddy-Evans Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') This Week's Articles tod('tih'); Today in History Daily Quiz tod('pod'); Picture of the Day Special Subscription Offers Subscribe Now Choose One: Subscribe Customer Service Subjects Prehistory Ancient Kingdoms Colonialism ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Timbuktu The El Dorado of Africa Elsewhere on the Web Timbuktu: a city in Mali World Heritage Site Mansa Musa Leo Africanus ... Gordon Laing Timbuktu is widely used to describe a place extremely far away and regarded by many as a myth. In reality it's a city in Mali , West Africa, of such great historical importance that in 1988 it was designated a World Heritage Site Situated on the southernmost edge of the Sahara Desert, Timbuktu is about eight miles from the Niger River closer during the rainy season. It was founded in the twelfth century by Tuareg nomads. By the fourteenth century it had became a major centre for the trans-Sahara gold and salt trade as well Islamic scholarship and culture, the Oxford University of the Sahara, despite the rise and fall of powerful dynasties around it.

89. African Venture Benefits All trade The shea nut trade in the West african bush remains unchanged since the Britishexplorer mungo park set up camp in the Bamako region of Mali in 1805. http://www.aarhus.com/aarhusolie/aarhusolie.nsf/links/8F32483F511F17C1C1256ADB00

90. UNDP myöhemmin Jyllands Posten (JP) explorer suuntaa kurssinsa Esimerkiksi Lontoossa TheAfrican Association ahkeroi Houghtonin seuraaja on 23vuotias mungo park. http://fi.undp.dk/loadarticle.asp?Article_Id=1105

91. Rough Guides Travel In the late 1700s the african Association sent a Scottish explorerto Africa to travel the Niger. His name was mungo park. mungo http://travel.roughguides.com/planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?JournalID=5799&E

92. MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: TOURIST ATTRACTIONS (by Boomie O.) which has a huge range of african animals to Zugurma park; Shiroro Hydroelectricdam; mungo park's Cenotaph; Bida town back to list RIVERS, Isaac Boro park a zoo http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/tourist.html

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS SITE AWARDS NIGERIAN ORGANIZATIONS SEND FREE WEBCARD IMMIGRATION ... SCAM INFORMATION TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRO THE GEOGRAPHY LOCATION MAP RIVERS PATRIOTIC STUFF FLAG COAT OF ARMS NATIONAL ANTHEM NATIONAL PLEDGE MOTTO PEOPLES POPULATION RELIGION -CHRISTIANITY -ISLAM -TRADITIONAL -INFLUENCE ETHNIC GROUPS -YORUBA -IBO (or IGBO) -OTHERS LANGUAGES -YORUBA ALPHABET -HAUSA ALPHABET -LINKS TO OTHERS LANGUAGE RESOURCES -GENERAL RESOURCES -YORUBA RESOURCES -IBO RESOURCES -HAUSA RESOURCES -OTHERS MORE ON LANGUAGES -NUMBERS -PEOPLE -BODY PARTS -HOUSE PARTS -PLACES -OTHER WORDS ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES YORUBA NAMES -THE NAMING CEREMONY -COMMON PARTS -CIRCUMSTANTIAL NAMES IGBO NAMES HAUSA NAMES LINKS ON NAMES THE WEDDING MARRIAGE TIDBITS FAMILY TIDBITS OTHER SOURCES FOODS AND DRINKS INTRO SOME MEALS SOME DRINKS RECIPES RECIPES LINKS BUYING (ingredients and food) DINING (restaurants) HEALTHCARE TRADITIONAL HEALTH CURRENT HEALTH POLICY INFO FOR TRAVELERS OTHER LINKS HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS EDUCATION SCHOOL LANGUAGES SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL LEVELS SCHOOL ATTIRE SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION SCHOOL LINKS HOLIDAYS FESTIVALS ATTIRE TRANSPORTATION AIR LAND WATER SPORTS SPORTS PLAYED SPORTS HISTORY RECORDS SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS SITES ON SPORTS THE ARTS ART LITERATURE MEDIA -RADIO -TELEVISION -INTERNET JUJU MUSIC FUJI MUSIC AFRO-BEAT MUSIC OTHER MUSIC TYPES OTHER SITES WITH SAMPLES

93. Mary Heebner - Editorial is based on an obscure Scottish explorer named mungo but I invented some of the Africanlanguages in current trip to Mali, following mungo park's path along http://www.maryheebner.com/thework/editorial/mungo park/mungopark.html

editorial Mungo Park "Interview with T.C. Boyle" by Mary Heebner An Irish tough from a Jewish New York 'hood, T.Coraghessan Boyle earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from the University of Iowa after attending the Iowa Writer's Workshop in the mid '70s. He completed Water Music in 1981 and won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction with World's End in 1987. His Road to Wellville, published in 1993, was recently made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins. Boyle lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children and is currently working on a historical novel examining turn-of-the-twentieth-century psychiatry, schizophrenia, and twisted love among the megawealthy who settled the upper crust of the place he now calls home. Mungo Park: Your first novel is based on an obscure Scottish explorer named Mungo Park. How did you learn of him? T. Coraghessan Boyle: I was doing my Ph.D. in nineteenth-century British literature and was reading John Ruskin, who mentions that Mungo Park was a terrific hero who went to discover the Niger River, but look what he did to his family: he left his wife and kids behind, took off on this adventure and died! So I thought I would examine that. In England, Park's book, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, upon which I based Water Music, is well-known. In America, Mungo was pretty much unheard of until I wrote the book.

94. Tullibody Myretoun Maid The hills are about 2 miles behind the Church. mungo park, the VictorianAfrican explorer, came from the same Myretoun farm. He http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/tullibody/STORIES/A04.html

The Myretoun Maid As an old ballad says - "In solid stone - a lasting tomb, / Not buried in earth's mouldy womb, /But placed above, and at the door / Which opened to the sacred floor /That every time the priest went there, /To offer his unhallowed prayer, / His eye might rest, his foot might tread, /On injured Martha's lowly bed ......." Another poem from a different source - "When the sun shone bright in the noontide sky, / Fair Martha's image met his eye, / Her spirit stood in the hallowed door, /And cried 'thou must enter here no more'; / Thus frantic, shunned and shunning men, /He, a maniac, died in the dim wood glen." - The reference to a 'dim wood glen' may refer to a story that the lovers are said to still haunt their trysting place, which is said to have been a spot above the second cascade in Balquarn Glen behind the Myretoun farm. Click on the small picture to see the larger version Picture shows the Maiden Stone, the stone coffin in which the Maid was laid to rest. View, looking approximately North from the Maiden Stone towards the present St. Serf's Parish Church. The Ochils hill behind the left-hand end of the parish church is the Myretoun hill. The present day Myretoun farm lies at its foot. Balquarn Glen is the Ochils Glen seen behind the right-hand end of the church. The hills are about 2 miles behind the Church.

95. Note Gualtieri97 On his first expedition mungo park had solved one of John Lander sailed to the WestAfrican coast with In my text, the terms explorer and traveller will be http://www.club.it/culture/culture97/claudia.gualtieri97/note.gualtieri97.html

Claudia Gualtieri RECIPROCITY IN THE FABRICATION OF THE EXOTIC OF WEST AFRICA IN THE LANDER BROTHERS' JOURNAL (RIVER NIGER, 1832) 1. The virtual space of colonial encounters has been defined by Mary Louise Pratt "the contact zone" in Imperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation , London, Routledge, 1992. 2. On colonial encounters and postcolonial theory see, among others: T. Todorov, Europe and Its Others , Colchester, University of Essex, 1985; H. L. Gates, Jr., ed., "Race", Writing, and Difference , Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1985; B. Parry, "Resistance theory / theorising resistance or two cheers for nativism" in F. Barker, P. Hulme, and M. Iversen, eds., Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory , Manchester, Manchester U. P., 1994, pp. 172-196. In Orientalism , the Palestinian scholar now living in the States, Edward Said, elaborates a theory according to which Orientalism is a narrative practice in colonial discourse which helps to fabricate the Other by universalising all the negative stereotypes which apply to non-European lands and peoples. This process participates in marginalising the Other to the periphery of Europe which, by opposition, represents the centre of civilisation, culture, and power. In The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

96. Principal Additions To The Collections - Online Catalogues - NLS Acc 11961 Correspondence and papers, 180155, of or relating to MungoPark (1771-1806), the West african explorer, and to his family. http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/additions/0102/manpur.html

97. Explorers Central Africa. park, mungo, 1771 1794, Scottish, Explored Africaninterior; discovered the River Niger. Speke, John http://www.geocities.com/Axiom43/explorers.html

Some Well known Explorers. Name First Names Lived Nationality Area Explored Burke Robert O'Hara Irish Crossed Australia from south to north. Cook James British Sailed right round New Zealand; landed at point on Australia which he named New South Wales; first to cross the Antarctic Circle; discovered New Caledonia Norfolk Island, Cook or Hervey Islands and South Georgia; explored Easter Island, the Marqesas and the Tonga Islands; rediscovered Sandwich Islands. (Hawaii); surveyed both sides of the Bering Strait. Dampier William English Sailed round Cape of Good Hope to Australia; landed at Shark Bay on west coast; explored as far as Dampier Archipelago. Flinders Matthew English Explored entire south coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to Bass Strait; charted east coast of Australia and Gulf of Carpentaria. Forrest John Australian Led coastal expedition from Perth to Adelaide.

98. SELKIRKSHIRE high). There are statues of Sir Walter Scott in his sheriff’s robes, and MungoPark, the african explorer, who was educated at the grammar school. http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SELKIRKSHIRE.htm

document.write(""); SELKIRKSHIRE acquired control of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In May 1811 an immense tract was granted to him in the Red River valley, and he at once proceeded to send out settlers; but the hostility of the North-West Fur Company, with its headquarters at Montreal, eventually ruined the colony (see RED RIVER SETTLEMENT), and the influence of his rivals led to the defeat of Selkirk in various legal proceedings. On the 8th of April 1820 he died broken-hearted at Pau. One of the most generous and disinterested men in the history of colonization, he fell a victim to the predatory selfishness of his rivals. Copies of his papers, most of which are unpublished, are in the Canadian Archives Department at Ottawa. SELKIRK, a royal and police burgh and the county town of Selkirkshire, Scotland. Pop. (I 901) 6292. It lies on Ettrick Water, about 3 m. above its confluence with the Tweed, 63/4 m. S. of Galashiels by the North British Railway Company’s branch line, of which it is the terminus. It is picturesquely situated on a hill on the right bank of the river, close to which are the mills and factories. The public buildings include the county buildings, public hall, library and the town hall (with a spire 110 ft. high). There are statues of Sir Walter Scott in his sheriff’s robes, and Mungo Park, the African explorer, who was educated at the grammar school. Woollen manufactures (tweeds, tartans, plaids and shawls) are the principal industry, but the town is also an important agricultural centre. With Galashiels and Hawick it belongs to the Hawick or Border group of parliamentary burghs. Immediately south of the town are the beautiful grounds of the Haining.

99. New Page 5 to further the understanding of the african Continent and In the late 1700's, MungoPark was one of the first to European society as an explorer and missionary http://swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us/HTMLS/ROWHTML/conrad/milieu.htm

Pent Farm Photo: Borys Conrad Conrad's residence from 1898 to 1907 It would be unfair to assess Joseph Conrad and his work "Heart of Darkness" without venturing to look at the surrounding events and ideas that shaped his life during this period. Many outside cultural influences as well as personal insights can give more value to understanding Conrad. This being stated, a look at events and happenings leading up to Conrad's writing of the "Heart of Darkness", and ultimately, his later success and a novelist, is in order. Blackwood's , which would later publish "Heart of Darkness", were granted much popularity. Blackwood's would eventually prove invaluable to Joseph Conrad's writing career. Blackwood's magazine. William Blackwood, editor and publisher, provided Conrad with a tremendous morale boost by believing in his works and being eager to represent them. This morale boost coupled with the respect of his contemporaries was welcomed and needed by Conrad. In 1902, "Heart of Darkness" was published in Blackwood's and would begin a period of artistic fulfillment and greatness for Joseph Conrad.

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