5 days writing challenge Day 5// meet a genius(MONGO PARK) By @ladyofpolicy set at 10% payout to @steemalive.
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INTRODUCTION
Greetings friends and everyone of us in this amazing steemalive Community, am still your girl @ladyofpolicy and welcome to my blog page once more today. Oh yes!!!! We made it to the last day of the writing challenge and I feel so good to introduce a rare man to you all, he's indeed a genius. He story of our country Nigeria cannot be complete without mentioning this great man, MONGO PARK.
ABOUT MONGO PARK,EARLY LIFE, BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION
Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near Selkirk, on a tenant farm which his father rented from the Duke of Buccleuch. He was the seventh in a family of thirteen.Although they stay in tenant farmers, the Parks family were up and doing, they were not poor at lease they can afford their needs. They were able to pay for Park to receive a good education, and Park's father died leaving property valued at £3,000 (equivalent to £244,000 in 2019).His parents had originally intended him for the Church of Scotland.
He was educated at home before attending Selkirk grammar school. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to Thomas Anderson, a surgeon in Selkirk. During his apprenticeship, Park became friends with Anderson's son Alexander and was introduced to Anderson's daughter Allison, who would later become his wife.
In October 1788, Park enrolled at the University of Edinburgh, attending for four sessions studying medicine and botany. Notably, during his time at university, he spent a year in the natural history course taught by Professor John Walker. After completing his studies, he spent a summer in the Scottish Highlands, engaged in botanical fieldwork with his brother-in-law, James Dickson, a gardener and seed merchant in Covent Garden. In 1788 Dickson along with Sir James Edward Smith and six other fellows founded the Linnean Society of London.
In 1792 Park completed his medical studies at University of Edinburgh.Through a recommendation by Joseph Banks he obtained the post of assistant surgeon on board the East India Company's ship Worcester. In February 1793 the Worcester sailed to Benkulen in Sumatra. Before departing, Park wrote to his friend Alexander Anderson in terms that reflect his Calvinist upbringing:
My hope is now approaching to a certainty. If I be deceived, may God alone put me right, for I would rather die in the delusion than wake to all the joys of earth. May the Holy Spirit dwell in your heart, my dear friend, and if I ever see my native land again, may I rather see the green sod on your grave than see you anything but a Christian.
Lupton 1979, p.
On his return in 1794, Park gave a lecture to the Linnaean Society, describing eight new Sumatran fish. The paper was not published until three years later.He also presented Banks with various rare Sumatran plants.More information
HIS ACHIEVEMENT
Mongo Park achieved too many things especially in his field of studies but the most popular Achievement of this man that carved him into Nigeria story and made him famous is his discovery.
He was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. He was the one that discovered the upper Niger River around 1796 after which he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled "Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa"in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river.
This is a very huge discovery and achievement for him.
AWARDS/SPECIAL RECOGNITION
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society award the Mungo Park Medal annually in Park's honour.
WHY I CHOOSE HIM
Right from when I was a kid in primary school I started hearing about this great man.. I've always wondered if his story was just a fiction but it's really a reality. How can a man achieve such??? It still Marvel's me.
His persistence and quest for research,new discoveries and innovations makes me wish to be like him. He really was a great man and may his soul rest in perfect peace.
Thanks to all my friends for visiting my blog,we made it to the last day of the challenge. I love you all.
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