In other words, it highlights themes such as horse racing and mega-events (which can be done just as well by any other big city), but avoids Hong Kong’s unique history, which is what many tourists - western and Mainland - really want to explore and which we, to make Hong Kong ...
Here are two passages from the book in which he describes his experiences.Extract 1Joey has been bought by a cavalry officer, Captain Nicholls, and taken from the farm in Devon where he lived to the Western Front, in France. He has become friends with another cavalry off...
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Based on the publisher's blurb, I thought it would be a chronicle of the science and engineering behind a crucial war-winning weapon, the P-51 Mustang fighter。 Thus, I was expecting something like Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, or Andrew Hodges' Alan Turing: The Enigma,...