James Bruce
James Bruce | |
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1762 portrait by Pompeo Batoni | |
| Born | 14 December 1730 Kinnaird House, Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Died | 27 April 1794 (aged 63) Kinnaird House, Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
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| Known for | Traced the origins of the Blue Nile |
| Notable work | Travels (1790) |
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.