Cian chats with Michael Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe. Topics include:

-the story of Henry Morton Stanley and his 'white' Ruwenzori tribe, a story that was famous at the time but is almost never mentioned today even in biographies of Stanley

-the birth of adventure fiction, the obsession with plots about lost cities and lost races

-connections to the life and work of HR Haggard, his place as a founder of lost world literature, his fictional lost white tribes in King Solomons Mines and She

-Richard Ogelsby Marsh's white tribe in Panama

-Ernst Schafer and the 1938 Nazi Tibet expedition

LINKS:

The Lost White Tribe book

Time To Eat The Dogs podcast

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