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Béthanie & Nazareth - French Secrets from a British Colony
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 2006. 1 large volume in-4, cloth-covered boards with illustrated dust jacket, many illustrations throughout, a very good copy, as new. Very heavy, extra-postage required.
Béthanie and Nazareth are two of Hong Kongs best-kept secrets. Now for the first time, the fascinating stories of these former French Mission foundations are brought to life by historian Alain Le Pichon. The text is extensively illustrated with previously unpublished historic photographs from the French Mission archives in Paris, and contemporary images by renowned architectural photographer Virgile Simon Bertrand."Béthanie was Hong Kongs first sanatorium. Built by the French Mission in 1875, it operated for a century on a hilltop surrounded by dairy pastures at Pokfulam. Nazareth, its sister building nearby, became the French Missions linguistic and printing headquarters in Asia, publishing thousands of titles in dozens of Asian languages between 1894 and 1956." (from publisher)
