Author: James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752405147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
Author: James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752405147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752405147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ...
Author: Alexander Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade
Author: Jane Aptekar Reeve
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728396263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728396263
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.
Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile
Author: James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752353317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752353317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile
Author: James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752351225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752351225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer (Text Only)
Author: Miles Bredin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007441029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The biography of one of Britain’s greatest explorers by a brilliant young writer.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007441029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The biography of one of Britain’s greatest explorers by a brilliant young writer.
The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller
Author: Sir Francis Bond Head
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
Author: James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752405155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752405155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq., Into Abyssinia
Author: James Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Traveling My Way
Author: James F. Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645380689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"If a tourist is seen, the trip was a failure." James F. Bruce's Traveling My Way tells of the adventures and lessons learned from his worldwide travels. While some of these excursions were spent working with medical missions and charitable ventures, they arose mostly for the sake of adventure alone and the thrill of visiting unusual places and people on this earth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645380689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"If a tourist is seen, the trip was a failure." James F. Bruce's Traveling My Way tells of the adventures and lessons learned from his worldwide travels. While some of these excursions were spent working with medical missions and charitable ventures, they arose mostly for the sake of adventure alone and the thrill of visiting unusual places and people on this earth.