Our Hotel in Bali : How a Young American Couple Built the Kuta Beach Hotel in 1936

2001 Pepper Publications (Singapore), 5 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches tall trade paperback, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 224, [18] pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Ink notations to upper margin of blank verso of rear cover. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean and unmarked of this story of the Kuta Beach Hotel in Bali. ~P~ [1.5P] Bali, 1936: Bob Koke, a young photographer from Hollywood, and Louise Garret, his future wife, landed in Bali in the Dutch East Indies to spend a few weeks painting and taking photographs. Within days they had discovered 'the most beautiful beach in the world' - Kuta Beach. Within weeks they had leased land fronting it and within four months they had opened the Kuta Beach Hotel. Soon after they fled Bali from the advancing Japanese invasion, Louise sat down and recorded their adventure, only to have her manuscript languish for nearly half a century before being rediscovered and published.