Identifier: travelstodiscov05bruc (find matches)
Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes
Year: 1790 (1790s)
Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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