Hong Kong
Author: Morris, Jan
ISBN: 9780679776482
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Feb 1997
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
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 comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong thus far.
ISBN: 9780679776482
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Feb 1997
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
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 comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong thus far.
