Legacy
J. Thomson's Mungo Park and the Niger (London, 1890) contains the best critical estimate of the explorer and his work. See also the Life (by Wishaw) prefixed to Journal of a Mission into the Interior of Africa in 1804 (London, 1814); H. B., Life of Mungo Park (Edinburgh, 1835); and an interesting passage in Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. ii.
One of Park's direct descendants is the Canadian author (of Scottish lineage), Professor Andrew Price-Smith, who has published extensively on health and development issues in Southern Africa.
Mungo Park's adventures on the Niger are the subject matter of Water Music, a richly detailed comic adventure novel published in 1981 by the American writer T.C. (a/k/a T. Coraghessan) Boyle.
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