Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Snyders and Vasily Vereshchagin. James Bruce, who reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1770 and came home to be called a liar for describing what he had seen. Head wrote the life to restore him; most of what Bruce reported was eventually confirmed. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates, among them paintings by Vereshchagin, Baines and Church, and includes one restored colour illustration in the text.