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The lost white tribe : explorers, scientists, and the theory that changed a continent /

In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa, what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda, the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this Afr...

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Main Author:	Robinson, Michael F. (Michael Frederick), 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Africa > Discovery and exploration > European. Africa > Colonization > History > 19th century. Ethnology > Africa > History. Whites > Africa > History.

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