Today’s South China Morning Post Magazine |
The “grandson” mentioned above is David Whyte, elder brother of an old friend of mine, Jenny. She was the one who arranged to get the book published. I bought a copy and found it a good read. I passed it on to a Jason Wordie, result the story above.
William Farmer Whyte writes simply and elegantly, no snobbishness, curious about the societies he visited, and he visited a lot all over Asia, 100 years ago. Quite the adventurer.