Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, Volume 2 | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

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Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, Volume 2

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Gwulo book - Volume 2 - Front cover

Price & how to buy

HK$168.00
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The Gwulo book is available to buy online, or in local book stores:

  1. Buy online here at Gwulo.com: click the Buy this button above to order online and have the book mailed to you. Local and international orders welcome.

    Shipping within Hong Kong is free of charge, and shipping to other countries is by airmail. You'll be shown the shipping cost during checkout, before you confirm your order.

    SPECIAL OFFER: International customers get FREE SHIPPING if you order two or more copies of the Gwulo books - Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, or any combination - for delivery to the same address. (Just click the Buy this button again if you want to order an extra copy.)

  2. Buy in a bookstore: Hong Kong customers can find Gwulo's books in branches of Art & Culture Outreach / Blue Lotus Gallery / Bookazine / Chung Hwa Book Co. (with branches at the airport) / Commercial Press / HK Maritime Museum Gift Shop / Joint Publishing / Kelly & Walsh / St John's Cathedral Bookstore / Sycamore Bookshop / TheBookshop / Vibe Book and Music Shop

  3. Buy online at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk (affiliate links*).

More information

The book is a 112-page paperback, with a page size of 152 x 229 mm / 6 x 9 inches.

ISBN: 9789887827610

To take a closer look, please click here to download a PDF sample of photos and stories from the book.

From the back cover:

Not your typical photo book!

David puts more of his favourite old Hong Kong photos under the magnifying glass, revealing the photos’ secrets, and uncovering their hidden stories. Flying Italian miners, and the most beautiful woman you’ll never see are just two of the surprises in store for you.

David runs the popular local history website Gwulo, home to over 15,000 photographs of old Hong Kong.

Reviews of Volume 1

Wonderful memories of my childhood were refreshed as the photos and stories brought to mind similar events. (Robert, Goodreads)

Eye for detail marks out Bellis’s book from the pack. (Adam Wright, SCMP)

Bellis gives us “old” Hong Kong as it actually was, and reveals more hidden stories in the collection than just the rat-bins. (John Butler, Asian Review of Books)

This is an example of Bellis’s deft way of story-telling. (May Holdsworth, Journal of the HK Branch of the RAS)

 

 

Gwulo book - Volume 2 - Back cover

 

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