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Bruce, James, 1730-1794

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Personal name headingBruce, James, 1730-1794
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Associated countryScotland Ethiopia Sudan
Birth date17301214
Death date179404
Field of activityDiscoveries in geography
AffiliationRoyal Society (Great Britain)
Profession or occupationExplorers
Found inTravels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773, 1804-1805: t.p. (James Bruce of Kinnaird, Esq., F.R.S.)
Il signore delle sorgenti, c2002: t.p. (James Bruce (1730- 1794)) p. 29 (b. Dec. 14, 1730 at County Stirling, Scotland) p. 289 (d. April 26, 1794)
Wikipedia, viewed 3 March 2023 (James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 - 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first European to trace the origins of the Blue Nile from Egypt and Sudan.)
Associated languageeng