Miles Bredin
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The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer
Miles Bredin
How is it that James Bruce is not better known? His is the most extraordinary life story, a tale of adventure and derring-do in the grand old tradition. We think of the 19th-century David Livingstone as a great African explorer but Livingstone himself called Bruce “a greater traveller than any of us”, a man who explored the sources of the River Nile a hundred years earlier. Near the beginning of this marvellous biography Bredin summarises his subject’s travels: “Bruce had crossed the Nubian Desert, climbed the bandit-bedevilled mountains of Abyssinia, been…
