Streets

Streets
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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9789622095632
ISBN-13 : 9622095631
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Streets by : Jason Wordie

Download or read book Streets written by Jason Wordie and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jason Wordie takes the reader on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wan Chai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the Island through Pok Fu Lam, Kennedy Town to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with an essay that describes the area and the way it has changed, then the reader is taken on a walk around the area's streets with the important, interesting, curious and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated.


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