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James Bruce

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Scottish explorer and botanist (1730-1794)

United KingdomHistorical FiguresLived 1730 to 1794 · aged 63
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James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

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James Bruce of Kinnaird 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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Country
United Kingdom
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Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1730 to 1794 · aged 63
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29 languages

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