"From little boy playing in the paddy fields of Foshan to riding as Acting Governor in a Crown car; disaster avoided for the cross-harbour tunnel; saving the fish jumpers. An inside account of some momentous, some trifling, but all interesting incidents i

"This is a wonderfully evocative account of the experiences of a deeply feeling, highly effective "colonial servant" who has served the people of Hong Kong with joy, affection and humour all his life." -- Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, former governor of Hong Ko

"Denis Bray writes about how Hong Kong changed from a postwar grub, with all the warts of wartime occupation, into a spectacular economic, social butterfly now under its own autonomous administrators for the first time in 160 years. Bray, uniquely placed