Colonial adventure stories

Dear Charlie,

Here's an interesting article on why we should be reading some of these racist, but important adventure stories, rather than burying our heads in the sand and pretending colonialism never happened. They can tell us a lot about the period, and some of them are a rollicking good read!
 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/23/british-readers-writers-embrace-colonial-past
 Mr Leah