Charles Bruce

Stirring Adventure in African Travel, Etc. [with Illustrations.] Charles Bruce

Publisher Marketing: Title: Stirring Adventure in African Travel, etc. [With illustrations.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bruce, Charles; 1888, [1887]. 256 p.; 8 . 10096.b.2. Contributor Bio:  Bruce, Charles Charles Bruce (1906-1971) was born in Port Shoreham, NS. After graduation from Mount Allison University in 1927, he joined the Canadian Press in Halifax, and was a member of the Song Fisherman, a group of regional poets that included Bliss Carman, Kenneth Leslie, and Charles G. D. Roberts. He worked as a war correspondent and in 1945 was appointed general superintendent of the Canadian Press in Toronto. Bruce won the 1951 Governor General's Award for Poetry for "The Mulgrave Road