Gweilo
by Martin Booth · first published 2004
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Evocative, funny and full of life - a beautifully written and observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong shortly after World War 2.Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair t
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Interesting article - certainly as it has a lot of photos that I'd not previously seen before. Further links for interested people: "Gweilo" - book about a british son of expats growing up in Hong Kong, and includes his visits the KWC http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood-eb... The amazing maps made by a japanese team…
on “Kowloon Walled City: City of Darkness Revisited” ↗Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood - Martin Booth http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood/dp...
on “Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?” ↗http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood/dp...
on “Do you really read?” ↗