Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island

In this book, Jason Wordie takes the reader on 50 tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wanchai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the Island through Pokfulam, Kennedy Town to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with an essay that describes the area and the way it has changed, then the reader is taken on a walk around the area's streets with the important, interesting, curious and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated. This is a book to read for the pleasure that the author's insights give to the lover of Hong Kong, to carry as one travels around Hong Kong, and to use as a guide-book when following the suggested routes. The outstanding photographs taken by three of Hong Kong's outstanding photographers, Richard Abrahall, Tony Hedley and John Lambon, make this not just a guide book, but a book to revisit many times as a handsome contemporary record of this ever-changing city.