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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $60, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXHKG5)		  
Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau City Guide  •  Nicko Goncharoff  •  Damian Harper
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 380 PAGES
A practical, comprehensive guide to Hong Kong, with maps, a Chinese language section and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. Written for independent travelers. (HKG14, $21.99)		   Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau City Guide
Culture Smart! Hong Kong  •  Clare Vickers
GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (HKG24, $9.95)		  
Hong Kong  •  Jan Morris
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES • FAVORITE
It's always a pleasure to find a destination that Jan Morris has written about. In this book, she covers the whole city in typical fashion -- enumerating the many personal pleasures she found there, as well as deftly describing the most important aspects of Hong Kong's history and culture. Reissued with a new final chapter on the city's return to China. (HKG02, $17.00)		   Hong Kong
Hong Kong Map  •  Nelles
MAP
A detailed, colorful folded map of Hong Kong, scale 1:22,500. Two Sides. 20x40 inches. (HKG15, $13.95)		   Hong Kong Map



Also Recommended

Fodor's Hong Kong's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy shirt-pocket guide and map. (HKG09, $11.99)
 		  
Fodor's Hong Kong, With Macau and the South China Cities  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series, filled with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (HKG38, $21.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook  •  Kam Y. Lau   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (HKG19, $8.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Hong Kong Encounter  •  Steve Fallon   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (HKG33, $12.99)
 		  
National Geographic Hong Kong  •  Phil Macdonald   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography. (HKG37, $22.95)
 		  
Pocket Rough Guide Hong Kong  •  Rough Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  By the savvy editors at Rough Guide, these just-right guides are bundled with a pullout map. (HKG43, $12.99)
 		  
City Between Worlds, My Hong Kong  •  Leo Ou-Fan Lee   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Lee draws on his experience of Hong Kong as well as literature, film and popular culture. The result is a multi-layered portrait of a city on the fault line between China and the West. (HKG35, $18.95)
 		  
Hong Kong, A Cultural History  •  Michael Ingham   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's cliched self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity. (HKG29, $19.99)
 		  
Understanding China  •  John Bryan Starr   • HISTORY  •  The Yale professor brings us up to date in this third edition of his succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling guide to China's economy, history and politics. (CHN196, $17.95)
 		  
Golden Boy, Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood  •  Martin Booth   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Booth writes with warmth of his youthful rambles in this sharp-eyed, affectionate memoir of coming of age in colonial Hong Kong. The book is a portrait of place, of a lost time, and most especially of his friends and family. (HKG23, $17.00)
 		  
Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire  •  Simon Winchester   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Winchester's fascinating, globe-trotting account of scattered, mostly oceanic, outposts of the British Empire shows his usual flair for anecdote in describing Hong Kong, Diego Garcia, Tristan de Cunha, St. Helena, As-cension, Pitcairn, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. (GBR569, $13.99)
 		  
Flashman and the Dragon  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker, set in 1860s China. In this installment, our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace. (CHN116, $15.00)
 		  
Fragrant Harbor  •  John Lanchester   • LITERATURE  •  Lanchester, in this satisfying novel of Hong Kong, spins an atmospheric tale of the city in the 1930s and 1940s bracketed by a parallell tale of business dealings, power and greed in the 1990s. (CHN266, $15.00)
 		  
Kowloon Tong, A Novel of Hong Kong  •  Paul Theroux   • LITERATURE  •  With its strong sense of place and contemporary setting in Hong Kong at a time of transition, this fast-paced novel is an illuminating and imaginative look at the city. (HKG12, $15.95)
 		  
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha  •  Dorothy Gilman   • MYSTERY  •  Grandma Pollifax, the CIA agent, is at it again, hot on the trail of jewel thieves, drug dealers and murderers in the city of Hong Kong. Part of the popular series, this mystery is great fun. (HKG17, $6.99)
 		  
Noble House  •  James Clavell   • LITERATURE  •  Another Clavell novel set in Asia, this one finds Russian, Chinese and English businessmen and intelligence agents caught up in a struggle to control the largest trading house in 1960s Hong Kong. (HKG16, $18.00)
 		  
Tai-Pan  •  James Clavell   • LITERATURE  •  Another volume in Clavell's well known Asia series, this book focuses on Hong Kong and its most powerful trading company. Tai-pans were the Hong Kong-based resident managers of the China/India trade. (ASA04, $16.00)
 		  
The Honourable Schoolboy  •  John Le Carre   • LITERATURE  •  Le Carre at his best, with British Secret Service agent George Smiley at work among the backstreets of Hong Kong, and across Asia. A riveting cold war spy story that is suffused in Hong Kong atmosphere. (HKG01, $16.00)
 		  
The Last Six Million Seconds  •  John Burdett   • MYSTERY • COMING IN MAY  •  Author of the popular Bangkok detective series, Burdett shifts his focus to Hong Kong this time, and the eve of the British handover to the Chinese in 1997, for this subtle, carefully plotted thriller (HKG44, $15.00)
 		  
The Piano Teacher  •  Janice Y. K. Lee   • LITERATURE  •  This gripping tale of love and betrayal evokes the life and culture of Hong Kong from 1942, on the eve of the Japanese invasion, through the 1950s. (CHN606, $15.00)
 		  
The Train to Lo Wu  •  Jess Row   • LITERATURE  •  The Hong Kong of Jess Row's remarkable debut collection is "a city that can be like a mirage, hovering above the ground: skyscrapers built on mountainsides, islands swallowed in fog for days." (HKG36, $14.00)
 		  
Chungking Express  •  Kar Wong    •  In Wong Kar-wai's intoxicating film two intertwined tales take place inside a high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: a policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer. (CHN573, $9.99)
 		  
In the Mood for Love  •  Kar Wong    •  Wong Kar-wai's delicately mannered, gorgeous tale unfolds in an apartment building in Hong Kong. (CHN574, $39.95)
 		  
 
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