Hans Johannes Hoefer

The book in your hands was a long time incomingnearly two decades, in fact. Longbefore publisher Hans Hoefer made his wayto Asia to set up what is today Apa Publica-tions, the young German was buying Mer-cedes sedans cheapin Stuttgart anddriving themthrough Turkey tosell in Iran and theMiddle East....

The book you hold in your hands is the younger of a pair of "Irish twins" conceived and born within the same year at Apa Publi- cations in Singapore. It was a tough task, as the parents of any set of human Irish twins can tell you. How to devote sufficient atten- tion to the first born,...