Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island
The reader is taken on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wanchai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the sotuh coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a citcuit of the Island through Pok Fu Lam, Kennedy Twon to Sheung Wan.
Each place is introduced with a 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.
This is a book to read for the pleasure that the author’s insights give to the lover of Hong Kong, and to use as a guide book when following the suggested routes. The many photographs help make this not just a guide book, but a book to revisit many times as a handsome contemporary record of this ever-changing city.