The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)
The Lost Valley Podcast
English - March 27, 2024 20:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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