THIS STRIKING PICTURE OF A SOUTHERN CHINESE GARDEN at Soochow is one of the excellent illustrations in “Mango Summer,” a brightly-written new book about life in South-east Asia. Cynthia Ellis was a Foreign Office clerk who, on attaining the age of 21 and so qualifying, sought a posting to Bangkok. Her keenness for travel took her on to Hong Kong and Laos and Cambodia, and even into Communist China. Miss Ellis had happy contacts with the native populations, especially in Bangkok; consequently, she is able to pass on to her readers interesting and novel thoughts from young Asian minds. She writes with discernment of places and people, and her descriptions of places are enlivened by her knowledge of their history. “Mango Summer” is published by Hodder and Stoughton.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 3

THIS STRIKING PICTURE OF A SOUTHERN CHINESE GARDEN at Soochow is one of the excellent illustrations in “Mango Summer,” a brightly-written new book about life in South-east Asia. Cynthia Ellis was a Foreign Office clerk who, on attaining the age of 21 and so qualifying, sought a posting to Bangkok. Her keenness for travel took her on to Hong Kong and Laos and Cambodia, and even into Communist China. Miss Ellis had happy contacts with the native populations, especially in Bangkok; consequently, she is able to pass on to her readers interesting and novel thoughts from young Asian minds. She writes with discernment of places and people, and her descriptions of places are enlivened by her knowledge of their history. “Mango Summer” is published by Hodder and Stoughton.