Retired mariner questions the generosity of Victorian philanthropy

A tale of two worlds

Retired mariner questions the generosity of Victorian philanthropy

by Howard Wright 13th January 2011

When I was a teenager I read avidly books by Margaret Mead, anthropologist and Quaker, and others on the ways of life of people in far off parts of the world. They prompted a passion within me to travel and to see for myself the places, and the native peoples, written about.