In the 1760s and 1770s the towering Scottish laird James Bruce made his way through Egypt and the Red Sea to Abyssinia, lived at the court of Gondar amid civil war, and reached the springs of the Blue Nile. Francis Bond Head retells his journeys from Bruce’s own volumes, along with the scorn that greeted his stories at home.
A lively popular life of a traveller whose true adventures were once dismissed as fiction. Download the free EPUB.