PAPINEAU, Aristide J. G.

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Papineau's Guide to Hong Kong and Spotlight on Macau. The 1970 edition, scarce institutionally and in commerce, of Papineau's colourful guide to Hong Kong, pleasingly with the maps in excellent condition and still retaining the original promotional bookmark for C. K. Tang, "Singapore's treasure house of old world loveliness". WorldCat records just two copies in the United States and one in Australia.By the 1960s, Hong Kong had taken its place among the world's premier holiday destinations. Like Papineau's long-running guide to Singapore, the present example combines a lively style with recommendations to fit a range of tastes and budgets. Adverts for the Mandarin Hotel ("if you order breakfast at 3 a.m., we don't ask why"), the jewellers Lane Crawford, and multiple fur dealers speak to the increasingly lucrative nature of the Asia tourist market as middle-class westerners sought the escapist high of international travel.

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