BOOK REVIEW: The Hong Kong Letters
By Gill Shaddick. Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong. Soft cover, 232 pp.
In 1965, a 21-year-old woman who in her own words mooched around London in a miniskirt, lace-up boots and a faux Cossack hat, fed up with her job in London and looking for adventure, caught the Siberian Railway for Asia. When she got to Vladivostok, she climbed aboard a tiny Russian freighter called the MS Baikal for Hong Kong, where she joined an adver…
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