Geography, enlightenment and the book: Authorship and audience in Mungo Park's African texts

Geographies of the Book

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-220

  Withers, Charles W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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