The 18th Century Search for the Blue Nile

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Image of a map of Europe and Africa from James Cook's travel atlas

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An eighteenth century map of north Africa

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Map of the Kingdom of Prester John

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Dutch map of James Bruce's journey through Africa

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Photograph of historical ruins in the city of Palmyra

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Photograph of the Nubian Desert 8km NE of Wadi Halfa Market, Sudan, in 2008

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Image of an eighteenth century pocket globe

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Engraving of Georges-Louis Leclerc De Buffon

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Comte de Buffon's incorporation of James Bruce Fennec in his Historie Naturelle

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Photograph of Tisisat Falls in 2006
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