Hong Kong - Paperback
by Jan Morris
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jan MorrisSeries:Vintage DeparturesPublish date:1997-02-04Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679776482ISBN-10:679776486UPC:9780679776482Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, ModernBook Topic:East, 20th CenturySize:8.54 x 5.52 x 0.91 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC9FF5REHB
In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of 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. World renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679776482ISBN-10:679776486UPC:9780679776482Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, ModernBook Topic:East, 20th CenturySize:8.54 x 5.52 x 0.91 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC9FF5REHB
Jan Morris was born in 1926 to a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner in Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), Conundrum, and Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. She is also the author of six books...
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