One
For The Road
by Julian Davison
A
best-seller when it first appeared, One For
The Road led author Julian Davison to embark
on a new career as the presenter of Channel i's much-acclaimed
Site and Sound series. Like the television programmes,
One For The Road travels back in
time to take a nostalgic look at life in Singapore
and Malaya in the late 1950s and early sixties. Skilfully
interweaving his own childhood memories with historical
fact, Davison beautifully evokes the full flavour
of that bygone era, before the age of air-conditioning
and the Internet. Amahs and kebuns, kampongs and kelongs,
railway journeys and voyages by sea - a litany of
vanished sights and sounds, that belong to all our
yesterdays.
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