JAMES BRUCE

(James Bruce of Kinnaird)


James Bruce
James Bruce
  • Born: December 14, 1730
  • Died: April 27, 1794
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Traveller, Travel Writer

James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, to which it was wrongly attributed to be the first European to trace the origins of the Blue Nile.