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The Romance of the Grand Tour Book Launch

The Romance of the Grand Tour will be launched at Singapore Art Museum on 15 April 2015

STEAMSHIPS, GRAND HOTELS AND PORT CITIES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
Retracing the journey of those grand tourists of the ‘20s, the book takes today’s traveller through 12 fabled port cities in what was then known as the East Indies. Setting sail from Rangoon (Yangon), we visit Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia (Jakarta), Surabaya, Bangkok, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Phnom Penh, Hanoi and Manila before disembarking at Hong Kong harbour.

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