The 18th Century Search for the Blue Nile

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Works Cited

Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. Vol. 3-6. Dublin: William Sleater, for P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. Porter, W. Sleater, J. Jones, J. Moore, B. Dornin, C. Lewis, W. Jones, G. Draper, J. Milliken, and R. White, [1790]-91.

Bruce, James. "Dedication to the King." In Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790.

Hibbert, Christopher. "Ethiopian Bruce." In Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889, 21-52. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983.

Rebekah Mitsein “’Come and triumph with your Don Quixote’: or, how James Bruce travelled to discover the Nile but found Scotland instead” in Studies in Travel Writing. Vol. 18 (2014), 1-17.

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