This author focuses on historical geography, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between place and time. Their work explores how landscapes and the people within them have been shaped across eras. Through their writing, they reveal the deep connections between human history and the physical world. Their insights provide readers with a novel way to understand both the past and the present.
This book offers the first full length biography of legendary explorer Mungo Park for over forty years. Tracing the expeditions who followed him it documents how and why he was commemorated long after his death. This is not simply one of the great stories of world exploration but a rich and varied account of Africa and its cultures at the time.