The Butterflies of Hong Kong
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This edition of The Butterflies of Hong Kong by Mike Bascomb, Gweneth Johnston & Frieda Bascombe is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1999 • Princeton Univ Pr • 422 pages.
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- If you dislike unreliable narrators, political maneuvering and power dynamics are central, not just background color.
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Exact edition: Hardcover · ISBN-13 9780120802906
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Hardcover: ISBN-13 9780120802906
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