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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.
- 27 April 1794 (aged 63), Stirlingshire, Scotland
- Travels (1790)
- Traced the origins of the Blue Nile
- 14 December 1730, Kinnaird, Stirlingshire, Scotland
23 de abr. de 2024 · James Bruce (born Dec. 14, 1730, Larbert, Stirling, Scot.—died April 27, 1794, Larbert) was an explorer who, in the course of daring travels in Ethiopia, reached the headstream of the Blue Nile, then thought to be the Nile’s main source.
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8 de jun. de 2018 · The Scottish explorer James Bruce (1730-1794) introduced Ethiopia to the Western world and confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He was the first modern explorer of tropical Africa. James Bruce was born on Dec. 14, 1730, near Larbert in Stirlingshire.
James Bruce (1730-1794) es uno de los viajeros británicos más conocidos del siglo XVIII, habiéndose hecho famoso en todo el mundo por sus exploraciones africanas en Egipto, Nubia y Etiopía. Fue objeto de una gran polémica por presentarse como el primer europeo que vio las fuentes del Nilo, uno de los sueños europeos desde los tiempos de ...
James Bruce es una de las personas cuya vida, en efecto, merece nuestra atención por el grado de influencia que tuvo en la historia.Conocer la existencia de James Bruce es conocer más sobre época determinada de la historia del género humano. Vida y Biografía de James Bruce (Kinnaird House, Stirlingshire, 1730-Londres, 1794) Explorador ...
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 is a multi-volume account by the Scottish traveller James Bruce (1730–94) of his journeys in the Horn of Africa, which includes an eye-witness account of Ethiopian history and culture, as well as a description of that country and the neighboring kingdo...
