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Insight City Guide Hong Kong
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 320 PAGES
This eyecatching guidebook features beautiful full-color photographs, illuminating area maps, a street atlas and information about transport and accommodations. With a pullout restaurant map guide.
(HKG27, $19.99)
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 Map
Nelles
MAP
A detailed, colorful folded map of Hong Kong, scale 1:22,500. Two Sides. 20x40 inches.
(HKG15, $10.95)
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, $19.95)
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 & Macau City Guide
Nicko Goncharoff
Damian Harper
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to Hong Kong.
(HKG14, $21.99)
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)
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, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics
John Bryan Starr
HISTORY
John Bryan Starr, a professor of history and former director of the China Association, brings his classroom experience to this admirably brief, clearheaded introduction to contemporary China.
(CHN196, $16.00)
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, $14.00)
Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Simon Winchester
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Winchester's fascinating, globe-trotting account of scat-tered, 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, $13.95)
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 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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