| Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer's Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and Their Arrival in Hong Kong Contributor(s): Bird, Les (Author) |
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ISBN: 9887554731 ISBN-13: 9789887554738 Publisher: Blacksmith Books OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Law Enforcement - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 8.5" W x 8.47" (1.17 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "We had no jurisdiction outside of Hong Kong waters. But we could see their vessels sinking in heavy seas. It was life or death, right there. We just went." Former Marine Police officer Les Bird tells of the harrowing sea journey to Hong Kong made by tens of thousands of refugees in the years that followed the end of the Vietnam War. And as he patrolled the southern maritime boundary of Hong Kong, he photographed their makeshift boats and later the people-smuggling vessels coming in, including the Sen On, a freighter ship that the crew abandoned. With his previously unpublished collection of personal photographs he tells the stories of the young children, the father who just bought a boat to embark on a 1,000-mile journey, and the disillusioned North Vietnamese battle-hardened veterans - all searching for a new life. |