Hong Kong [Audiobook] download free by Jan Morris
- Listen audiobook: Hong Kong
- Author: Jan Morris
- Release date: 1997/8/11
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780679776482
- Rating: 7.21 of 10
- Votes: 214
- Review by: Chrystal Hardin
- Review rating: 8.68 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 4H4M51S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, MPEG4, MP3, MOD, WMA Lossless, WAV, WMA, FLAC (compression RAR, ZIP, TAR.7Z, LZMA, TAR, CBR)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M18S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: On July 1, 1997, a world will come to an end, as one of the last outposts of the British empire returns to Chinese rule. No one has depicted that world - the dazzlingly modern, obdurately traditional Crown Colony of Hong Kong - more faithfully, shrewdly, or affectionately than Jan Morris, who in this contemporary classic of travel writing celebrates the city's charm and squalor, unravels the tangle of its history, and gives us an informed glimpse into its future. Combining firsthand reportage with exemplary research, Morris takes us from Hong Kong's clamorous back alleys to the luxurious Happy Valley racecourse, where taipans place their bets between sips of champagne and bird's nest soup. Morris chronicles the exploits of opium traders and pirates, colonists and financiers, and shows how their descendants view the prospect of reunification with the Chinese mainland. What emerges is an epic tableau, vastly informed and pungently evocative.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Society & Culture: General, Asian History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Guidebooks
- Download servers: MEGA, Google Drive, Mediafire, FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, Uploaded, Hotfile, ownCloud, SeedPeer, Drop.me. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, TAR.7Z, LZMA, TAR, CBR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.80 USD
- Dimensions: 134x202x18mm
- Weight: 284g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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