The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)

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 Buy Me A Coffee