Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Dustcover is damaged but actual book is great. 1969 First edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> After her survival of internment in Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong Jean Gittins published a brief but widely appreciated ac- count of that experience. In an introduction which she then asked me to write I hoped for a longer account of far wider liberated experiences to some day follow that first effort in print. This has now happened. Once again the author honours me by asking for an introduc- tory note. The interest of this book so clear and rapid in style swings between the Colony of Hong Kong and the City of Melbourne spreading out during the middle decades of this century over sojourns in the Far East as well as in Great Britain and Europe; encountering and describing people and places events and emotions of fascinating variety. Through all its overt attractive- ness there runs unobtrusive and unintended an undeclared demonstration of the spirit of our age: that a young woman may by her own initiative and to the general good enter upon difficult undertakings and exacting duties through disappointments deep sorrows cherished successes; depending entirely on her own cul- tivated intelligence concentrated energy and personal charm: even if she happens to have been born a privi leged member of a very wealthy and famous family. (SP)