F.D. Ommanney, marine biologist, gives a picture of the Far East which has all the vividness, beauty of description, humour and shrewdness of comment that have characterised his earlier writing. It was primarily on a scientific mission, fishery research in the China Seas, that FD Ommanney was sent by the government to the East. In this book he gives a superb picture of it as it is today, seen from an English viewpoint through a window in Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong.