The 18th Century Search for the Blue Nile

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Bruce Travels Cover.jpg
Title Page for James Bruce's Travel Narrative

Nile Map 1868.JPG
Map of East Africa and the Nile River from Sir Samuel W. Baker's "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia"

Cook Africa.JPG
A map of Africa from James Cook's travel atlas

Cook Abyssinia.JPG
An image of a map of Abyssinia from James Cook's travel atlas

Massawa.JPG
Photograph of the historic port of Massawa

Axum Obelisk.jpg
Photograph of the Stone Obelisk located in the Ethiopian city of Axum.

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African Clay House.jpg
An example of a clay house with a thatched, cone-shaped roof, similar to that described by James Bruce. Photographed in Benin in West Africa

Cartoon.pdf
1791 Cartoon mocking the credibility of James Bruce's Travel Narrative

Cairo.jpg
An image of a painting of Cairo, Egypt during the 19th century

Gondar City.jpg
A picture of a historic section of Gondar, Ethiopia.
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