By David Wrolson
Jim at Frontier Partisans has post on the adventure side of Burnhams's life.
https://frontierpartisans.com/18455/burnham-haggard-on-the-imperial-frontier/
>>>"The conduit between myth and legend and real life adventure was wide open and flowing in both directions in late 19th century southern Africa. Burnham would explore the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which at that time were believed by white explorers to be evidence of a lost white tribe’s sojourn in the African interior. “Lost cities” would become a trope of pulp fiction through the first half of the 20th Century."<<<<
Not many non-archaeologists can say this, but I have searched for lost cities. I majored in
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