An Intimate Travel Guide for Twenty Oriental Cities from Tokio to Singapore
Posted: March 8th, 2013 | 1 Comment »A lovely cover from Stuart Lillico’s 1935 An Intimate Travel Guide for Twenty Oriental Cities from Tokio to Singapore, published by Shanghai’s Mercury Press (linked to the English language evening newspaper of the same name). The Chinese cities included are Canton, Chefoo, Hankow, Hongkong, Nanking, Peiping, Shanghai, Tientsin, Tsingtao and Dairen. Lillico was a prolific book reviewer writing reviews on subjects as diverse as DH Lawrence to Norway in World War Two. He was also, and even more obscurely, the long time editor of Hawaiian Shell News. Just how many subscribers that had remains a mystery…
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Cathy Lilburne
Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints