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Niger River

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• Rivers -- Africa, West

• Dioliba River
• Fleuve Dioliba
• Joliba River
• Kworra River
• River Niger

• Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger (3 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1832), by Richard Lander and John Lander
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, Together With Other Documents, Official And Private, Relating To The Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park, by Mungo Park, ed. by J. Whishaw (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Travels of Mungo Park, With a Full Narrative of Subsequent Adventure in Central Africa (Thomas Nelson edition (Edinburgh), mid-1800s), by Mungo Park, ed. by Andrew R. Bonar (Gutenberg text)
• Travels in the Interior of Africa (Cassell edition, late 1800s; omits some material in original 1799 edition), by Mungo Park, ed. by Henry Morley
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Acte Général de la Conférence de Berlin (with its protocols, in French; ca. 1885), by Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The life and travels of Mungo Park; (New York, Harper & brothers, 1851), by Mungo Park (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and travels of Mungo Park. (Edinburgh, W. and R. Chambers, 1842), by Mungo Park (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mungo Park and the Niger, by Joseph Thomson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger: From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa, by Robert Huish (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa: Containing a Description of the Several Nations for the Space of Six Hundred Miles up the River Gambia (London: Printed by E. Cave for the author, 1738), by Francis Moore, contrib. by Bartholomew Stibbs and Leo Africanus (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• The Golden Trade: or, A Discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians, by Richard Jobson
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • HTML at Chicago; access may be selective
• The golden trade: or, A discouery of the riuer Gambra, and the golden trade of the Aethiopians Also, the commerce with a great blacke merchant, called Buckor Sano, and his report of the houses couered with gold, and other strange obseruations for the good of our owne countrey; set downe as they were collected in trauelling, part of the yeares, 1620. and 1621. By Richard Iobson, Gentleman. (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne, dwelling at the entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1623), by Richard Jobson (HTML at EEBO TCP)