Some people have asked me where the photo of me that appears on the back cover of my book KWANGCHOW came from. It is a picture taken at a ship party, on the KWANGTUNG (not the Kwangchow), in Kobe, Japan in 1959. I am in the middle and Sparks, who …

David Adamson Harper spent a number of years working in Panama in the maritime industry. During his first tour of duty there, the 1964 riots against American sovereignty over the Canal Zone occurred and he witnessed incidents in Colon at close hand.