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Mungo Park cover 1859

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Original – Park was one of the first explorers of Central Africa, and was one of the first explorers mentioned in Reisen in Central-Afrika – von Mungo Park bis auf Dr. Barth u. Dr. Vogel (1859) (Travels in Central-Africa – from Mungo Park to Dr. Barth and Dr. Vogel)

Reason

EV + HQ

Articles in which this image appears

Mungo Park (explorer)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations

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N/A

• Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 13:50, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
• Comment – I'm torn. Some historical interest & EV; OTOH, some of our English-WP readers be put off by the German text – and Mungo Park wasn't German. (I say this even tho I know German.) Sca (talk) 15:25, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• Opps, Mungo Park ( 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. Was he eaten? lost? Hafspajen (talk) 17:11, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• Comment-Category, creator?--Godot13 (talk) 00:35, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
• Comment Who's the actual author? If it's by Mungo Park himself, that ups the EV a lot more than if it's a simple text that includes him (and may not be illustrating him on the cover). Bit on the small side, but, given it seems to capture the detail well, I can overlook that. Frankly, I think it'd have far higher encyclopedic value (EV) if we had any information about the book: At the moment, the claim to EV is that it mentions Mungo Park in the text on the cover - not a very high claim, when we don't know much about the significance of the book. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:27, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:52, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

• The book was written by Eduard Schauenburg, BTW. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:52, 18 April 2015 (UTC)