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
