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Also known as Abyssinian Bruce, James Bruce of Kinnaird

Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)

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Works
96

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  • Memoirs
  • Travels to discover the source of the nile
  • III : The Hospitality of Abraham
  • II : The Miracles on the Orontes
  • I : The Elephant in the Room

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1949-09-23
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Born
( 1730-12-14 ) 14 December 1730, Kinnaird House, Larbert , Stirlingshire, Scotland
Died
27 April 1794 (1794-04-27) (aged 63), Kinnaird House, Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Occupations
Traveller travel writer
Known for
Traced the origins of the Blue Nile
Notable work
Travels (1790)

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1794-04-27
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James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

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