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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Stanley's lost story
  • The interview
  • Gambaragara
  • Another world
  • Early encounters
  • The story breaks
  • The curse of Ham
  • Oriental Jones
  • The beautiful skull
  • Revising the hypothesis
  • Mutesa
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • At the summit
  • A world gone white
  • The dynastic race
  • The Aryan tidal wave
  • Blonde Eskimos
  • Tribes of the imagination
  • The white psyche
  • Cracks in the theory
  • The roof of the world
  • Colored by war
  • Kennewick man
  • Epilogue: what did Stanley see?