Light and shade : sketches from an uncommon life.
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FilmSeries: HKUL book talkPublication details: Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong Libraries, 2009.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
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- 9789888052516
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- Bard, Solomon Matthews, 1916- Light and shade : sketches from an uncommon life
- Hong Kong (China) -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State
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- 920.5125 B24 l
- DS796.H753 B375 2009eb
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Live recording from the book talk held on Apr. 2, 2009 at the University of Hong Kong Libraries.
In English.
Speaker, Solomon Bard ; moderator, Joseph S.P. Ting.
Preface; PART 1; 1. Siberian Childhood; 2. Manchurian Adolescence; 3. Eton in China; 4. Mr Healey; 5. Hong Kong's Epidemics and Typhoons; 6. Myself a Reluctant Midwife; 7. The Battle For Hong Kong, December 1941; 8. Behind Barbed Wire: Life in a Japanese Prisoner-of- War Camp; PART 2; 9. The Post- War Years; 10. Miracle at St. Francis; 11. Sino-British Club of Hong Kong and Its Legacy; 12. Eric Coates; 13. Hong Kong Volunteers after the War: from the Notes of a Regimental Medical Officer; 14. Maria Callas at Epidauros; PART 3; 15. Incas of Peru; 16. Beauty Pageant in South Dakota.
17. Easter Island/ Rapa Nui18. Old Chinese Fort Rediscovered; 19. Trafalgar Night in Hong Kong; 20. Working with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra; 21. My Family; INDEX.
Solomon Bard's life has been an extraordinary story of a peripatetic youth, of incident and adventure, and of varied enthusiasms pursued with great energy to a very high level.
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 082