Sunday 26 March 2023

“First Impressions” of an Aussie traveller to Asia a century ago | Jason Wordie

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.