the development of Rudolf Raspe's Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Further reading James Boswell (1774), "Some Account of the Very Extraordinary Travels of the Celebrated Mr. Bruce". London Magazine, 43 (August–September 1774), 388–91, 429–31. Reprinted with notes in Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell, ed. Paul Tankard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014; pp. 45–57. Major (afterwards Sir) Francis Head (1830), The Life of Bruce, the African traveller, London. Sir Robert Lambert Playfair (1877), Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis. London: Kegan Paul. Includes a selection of his drawings, published for the first time. J. M. Reid (1968), Traveller Extraordinary: The Life of James Bruce of Kinnaird New York, Norton. Miles Bredin (2001) The Pale Abyssinian: a life of James Bruce, African explorer and adventurer, Flamingo. Editions of his book Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773. Five Volumes, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790. Travels, ed. Alexander Murray. Seven volumes, London: 1805 and 1813. Bruce, James, Travels. Abridged edition. Horizon Press, New York, 1964. References External links Works by James Bruce in Internet Archive. Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2 (Edinburgh) The Grand Lodge of Scotland. Kinnaird House, the home of the Bruces 1730 births 1794 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Explorers of Africa People educated at Harrow School Scottish explorers Scottish Freemasons Fellows of the Royal Society People from Falkirk (council area) Scottish travel writers 18th-century Scottish writers