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  • An invitation to a timeless journey.  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    KESSEL Joseph reminds us of what can be a journalist writer. Much curiosity and sensitivity allow it to penetrate an unknown and disappeared and the world to discover us. We are far articles made from AFP dispatches or tourist guides.
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  • Between historical novel and travelogue  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    This book plunges us in two colonial enclaves in China, the English moon (Hong Kong), the other to Portuguese (Macau). Throughout his meetings, the author shares with us the story of the place and some outsized characters, dune era that is no longer
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  • Initiatory journey through the original  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    .... We hear the car horn, the shouts of coolies, calls the rickshaws, the whistle of the stars, the clamor of the people ... Back to back with this magnificent novel by Joseph Kessel in HONG KONG and MACAU that dated from 1957, and we walk slowly in
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  • Reads like a novel  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), novelist, journalist knocked a lot around the world. The Folio editions have had the good idea to republish this story dates from 1957. It is very modern and very alive. We do not get bored for a moment with Kessel guide as
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  • The great investigative journalism  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    It is in a stripped journalistic style (sometimes you'd read Albert Londres) Joseph Kessel us into this China counters, at a time when their size is in the past but where there are still traces of this prosperous period of commerce, casinos, and the
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  • A good introduction is accessible to all  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    I enjoyed the language used in this book, which I think makes it an accessible book even to less trained players. I mention this in particular because I happened to drop the books in the middle because of turns of phrase or vocabularies too complex o
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  • a unique testimony  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    Kessel us an account of his stay of several weeks in Hong Kong and Macao in 1955 while one still belonged to the British crown and the other in Portugal, two survivors confetti of colonial empires in loss, two bastions the West not far from the huge
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  • At the heart of Western enclaves in the 50s  

    Hong Kong and Macao (Paperback)
    Diving in Hong Kong and Macao '50s, before the fever resumes these two western enclaves in the heart of Asia. Travel narrative is the opportunity to report stories learned from local contacts who welcomed Kessel - these stories are also much more int
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