A Hong Kong Diary: kept by John Randle while working there for Heinemann Educational Books in 1977; and transcribed and annotated by him in 2021

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Half black cloth, paper boards, Chinese-chop-stamped paper label, in slipcase. [50 copies printed] - "for family and friends". "I landed in Hong Kong rather as the first astronaut landing on Mars, fresh from a Cotswold farm and with really no idea what to expect . . . Reading this diary for the first time 44 years later brings back vividly how I enjoyed every minute of it, particularly working with the Chinese, and that odd band of characters, the British ex-pats." In 2017 John Randle, founder of the Whittington Press, published Slow Ride to India, a grand book of photographs "taken during an overland journey to India in 1968 via Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and Ceylon" (275 copies); and in 2021 1942: a pocket diary kept by Mavis Randle, & letters between her and Jack, April 1942-March 1944, a lockdown project commemorating his father, Captain J.N. Randle VC (30 copies for family and friends). A Hong Kong Diary, quietly elegant in presentation, records his mission to teach Heinemann's staff in Hong Kong (and Kuala Lumpur) "the rudiments of western typography". The star among the "odd" ex-pats is Leon Comber (born 1921 and, at the time of publication, still living), ex-Indian Army and head of Heinemann's SE Asia, who is a character straight out of John le Carré. Once you have learnt Chinese, Comber tells Randle, "a curtain is lifted & life can never be the same again". N° de ref. del artículo 31M100396

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