Streets: Exploring Kowloon
This is a guidebook with a difference: it aims to illustrate aspects of Hong Kong's history, culture, society and heritage in ways not covered in standard works, and to guide the reader to areas where few visitors go. With maps and travel information, it takes the reader on walks along specific streets pointing out historically and culturaly important sites, but also the curious and the intriguing. The book starts with a district familiar to all visitors - Tsim Sha Tsui - but then moves into the hinterland of Kowloon, taking the reader and walker far beyond the well-known streets of tourist-oriented shops and hotels.
Like its companion, Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island, Streets: Exploring Kowloon guides the reader with maps and travel information to take walks, each along a specific street pointing out historically and culturally important sites, but also the curious and the intriguing. While accessible to readers new to Hong Kong and offering to them a very different side of the place to the shopping-focused tourist traps or the glass and steel glitz of Central, it also offer much that is new and unknown to frequent visitors and to residents.