Book Review – Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio

I’ve always enjoyed travel writing and today I’d like to recommend another travel book, called Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten, which focuses on the descendants of settlers of colonial communities across the globe.

Some of the people visited in the book include Confederate Americans in Brazil, Poles in Haiti, the Basters of Namibia, the Germans of Seaford Town, Jamaica as well as the Burghers of Sri Lanka.

While the book makes no excuses for the horrendous acts sometimes committed by the colonists against the original inhabitants of the new countries, it also raises several thought-provoking questions:

What happened to the descendants of the colonists when the colonial days ended?

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What’s it like to be an outsider in the country of one’s birth, belonging to a “forgotten people” with a controversial past?

Here’s further information from the author’s website:

Lost White Tribes – Journeys among the Forgotten

Reviews and additional information from Amazon.co.uk:

Lost White Tribes by Riccardo Orizio

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