Talk:Mungo Park (explorer)

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[edit] DOB

Many sources give Sept 10 as his D.O.B. (unsigned)

[edit] translation from german article

This article should be replaced by the german article (i.e. complete rewrite), which is up to date and also much better and which also includes a map. Please see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Park

I (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Nachtigall) have written this article and frankly, there are many aspects in the engl. article which are not correct. I do not want to go into detail, because a translation will clean it up anyway.

That would be great! -- Stbalbach 13:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I've made a start, from (where else!) the beginning of the article, drawing on Nachtigall's text in the German and my own knowledge and texts on Park. I will go over the rest as I get the chance, although would welcome a hand since even with Babelfish my German translation skills aren't great. Greycap 18:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Greycap and Stbalbach. I would be willing to review the article (and assist in this way), but my english is not fine enough to translate it myself. I also added a request to Wikipedia:German-English_translation_requests/biographies#Natural_Science_and_Medicine Do not be put off by the lenght of the German article, there are quite a few cites in it that can be copied'n'pasted. Nachtigall 22:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DOB

My name is Ben Park and I am a direct descendent of Mungo. Many sources on the net and in books state Mungo’s actual DOB been the 10th Sep, not 11th as listed on wikipedia. As a descendent of Mungo, my farther inspired my imagination as a young boy with tales of his expeditions and theories of his death in 1806. I also share what I believe to be his DOB the 10th Sep. (B Park)

The latest biographies state that the BoD is probably 11 Sep 1771. For instance, Mark Duffill: Mungo Park: West African Explorer aus der Reihe Scots’ Lives, NMS Publishing Limited, Edinburgh 1999, ISBN 1901663159 says:
Mungo Park was born ... very probably on the 11 September 1771. This is the date recorded in the baptismal register, though in several biographies and other works of reference 10 September is the given date.
Also Kenneth Lupton: Mungo Park the African Traveler, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1979, ISBN 0-19-211749-1 (the best biographie) states it in a very similar manner (do not have the book at hand right now) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nachtigall (talk • contribs) 21:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] hi...error about surviving family.

hi.

not being funny but im one of his desendants and i can tell you we dont have family living in canada. we have most of his stuff so can you please take out the bit about family left. thanks.

if you wanna redo it thats fine but the family wont last long cos their are no more boys in the family.