Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all.
Through firsthand reportage, world-renowned travel writer Jan Morris takes us through the crowded streets of this enigmatic city, offering the most insightful and comprehensive study of Hong Kong thus far. She reviews Hong Kong's early days as a British opium port controlled by pirates, cutthroats, and scoundrel tycoons, and looks ahead to the city's future as part of the People's Republic of China.
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"This is the book that hooked me on this author. Jan has a fun style, and a great eye for the real pleasures of travel. I recommend if you like travel literature." — Kevin (4 out of 5 stars)
"This is the book that hooked me on this author. Jan has a fun style, and a great eye for the real pleasures of travel. I recommend if you like travel literature."
" Greatly enjoyed this book especially since I read this right before a trip to HK. "
Jan Morris is the author of some forty books, most notably the Pax Britannica trilogy about the rise and fall of the British Empire.
Wanda McCaddon (a.k.a. Nadia May or Donada Peters) has narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, has earned numerous Earphones Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.
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