W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London and Edinburgh, No Date, but gift inscription on verso of frontis dated ‘Xmas 1913’.  Hard cover, 304 pages.  Good; blue cloth with colour illustrations on front and spine; lettering in black and gilt.  Some edge wear; spine ends bumped with a few tiny tears to cloth and just a touch of fraying; all corners lightly bumped with boards exposed and a touch of fraying.  Some spots on boards; rubbing to cloth along spine edges; binding sound with a very slight lean.  Brown end papers; black & white illustrations including map of Park’s route, tissue-guarded frontis; some smudges/age spotting; light scattered foxing and faded splash spot on outer page block; one stray pen mark noted; occasional straightened dog ear; a couple of short fore-edge tears (appears from opening pages).  Mungo Park (1771-1806) was a Scottish explorer who travelled through West Africa and was the first European believed to have made it to the central part of the Niger River.