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Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island

Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island

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Author: Jason Wordie
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Category: Book

Buy New: $27.95



Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1496192

Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.7

ISBN: 9622095631
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9789622095632
ASIN: 9622095631

Publication Date: May 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Editorial Reviews:

Book Description
Jason Wordie is a historian who engages a general audience with the way buildings and places reveal the history, changing nature, and culture of Hong Kong. His knowledge of Hong Kong and its history is complemented by an eye for the intriguing, and a wonderful sense of the telling anecdote that humanizes and brings history to life.

In Streets, Wordie takes the reader on 50 tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wanchai, to Shau Kei Wan and Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the island through Pokfulam and Kennedy Town to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with a description of the area and the way it has changed. Then the reader is taken on a walk around the areais streets with the important, interesting, curious, and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated.

Outstanding photographs by three of Hong Kongis most notable photographers--Richard Abrahall, Tony Hedley, and John Lambon--help make this a book to revisit many times as a handsome contemporary record of this ever-changing city.


Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The ONLY Historical and Cultural Guide to Hong Kong Island   April 26, 2007
sinophile (Beijing, China)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Jason Wordie is already well-known to people interested in the history of Hong Kong. His book Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island is the only cultural and historical guidebook to the city available in English. It is leagues ahead of any of the glib mass-produced travel books for the trendy rich or the parsimonious backpacker. Mr. Wordie brings to life the overlooked stories of Hong Kong island that can be found on every street corner. He writes with a passion for the city's history that simply cannot be found elsewhere. I highly recommend the book and eagerly look forward to the publication of his guide book for Kowloon.

 
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