One for the Road and Other Stories - Recollections of Singapore and Malaya

By the presenter of Channel i's acclaimed Site and Sound series, this book travels back in time to take a nostalgic look at life in Singapore and Malaya in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 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...