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100 1 _aBruce, James,
_d1730-1794
245 1 0 _aTravels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) :
_bIn the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_to_Discover_the_Source_of_the_Nile
500 _aRelease date is 2018-02-05
508 _aProduced by Chris Curnow, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5)" by James Bruce is a multi-volume travel account published in 1790. This Scottish explorer's chronicle of his journeys through Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa was met with widespread disbelief upon publication. Bruce described exotic customs, traced the Blue Nile, and witnessed Ethiopian court life—but his vivid accounts were ridiculed as exaggerated nonsense. Later explorers would confirm much of what he reported, vindicating a traveler whose truthful observations seemed too extraordinary to believe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aNile River
653 _aEthiopia -- Description and travel
653 _aEgypt -- Description and travel
653 _aNatural history -- Ethiopia
653 _aEthiopia -- History
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56502
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