Talk by Anthony Smith
In trying to write a book about a journey he and three friends had made to the South of Persia to look for, among other things, blind white fish, Anthony Smith realised not so much what they had done but what they had omitted to do and observe on their trip. In his talk he discusses the merits and the disadvantages of such a narrow and definite type of objective.
This is the sixth of a group of talks by representatives of 'the Queen's generation.'