香港澳门（英文原版，Hong Kong & Macau,Lonely Planet系列）|报价￥139.40|图书,艺术与摄影,摄影艺术,摄影作品,艺术摄影,风光摄影,
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基本信息
·出版社：Lonely Planet Publications
·页码：426 页码
·出版日：2004年
·ISBN：1740594487
·条码：9781740594486
·版次：2004-01-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
Hong Kong has something for everyone. You can join the gastronomes at ritzy restaurants or slurp noodles at neighbourhood food-stands;marvel at the bright lights on a harbour ferry cruise or explore the higgledy-piggledy laneways where the locals hang out. It's a glorious, crazy Chinese banques: let this smart, stylish and streetwis guide show you the menu.
·JOIN THE 'IN CROWD'in the most chichi cafes, bars and clubs:tell'em Lonely Planet sent you
·EAT WITH CONFIDENCE in the most authentic restaurants with our Chinese Food chapter
·SNAP UP THE BARGAINS using our insider shopping tips-they'll save you a fortune
·PICK UP THE PULSE of the city with our new'City Life' coverage
·GET AROUND with our easy-to-use, detailed colour maps
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Spotlight Reviews
Reviewer: Gary Kirchherr (Erie, Pa., USA)
Disregard Amazon's reader reviews that precede this one. The earlier comments aren't based on this book at all, but were simply ported to this page from the previous edition's. The well-deserved complaints about "Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou," Ninth Edition, do not apply to "Hong Kong and Macau," 10th Edition. Note that "Guangzhou" was dropped from the title.
I never go on vacation somewhere without first buying the Lonely Planet travel book on the destination. So it's been with some frustration that for the last three years, the Hong Kong book has been among the weakest of the series, at least among those I've bought. But the long-awaited update has some badly needed changes and updates.
The previous edition came out in January 1999, several months after Lonely Planet had released another, entirely different Hong Kong book titled simply "Hong Kong." The "Hong Kong" book was pretty skimpy, including a mere 10 pages or so on Macau. But it did have some helpful color maps at the back of the book.
When "Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou" came out, it included some badly needed material on Macau, as well as the Chinese border cities of Shenzhen and Zhuhai. Unfortunately, the book also lumped in about 90 pages on Guangzhou, and another eight-page supplement on "Hong Kong Film." For 99-plus percent of the people who are visiting the Hong Kong area, these pages were only dead weight. Virtually nobody visiting Hong Kong plans to visit Guangzhou, and why should they? It's a long trip, and by the book's own admission, there's nothing there for tourists anyway.
Even worse, this book was out of date from the moment it hit the streets. Both the "Hong Kong" and "Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou" books gave the location of the Hong Kong Museum of History as Kowloon Park. But the museum had already moved when I visited Hong Kong in November 1998, when the "Hong Kong" book had just came out. And so I was more than a little surprised that "Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou" repeated the same mistake in its January 1999 printing!
But what *really* annoyed me was that "Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou" didn't have the easy-to-read, easy-to-find color maps of the earlier "Hong Kong" book. Instead, the larger book had ugly, hard-to-read black-and-white maps scattered willy-nilly throughout.
This has changed under the book's all-new author, Steve Fallon. (Damian Harper does not get credit in this edition, despite what Amazon says.) Fallon has dropped the Guangzhou section and other useless padding, making the book a lot more portable. The Museum of History's current address is in there now. And the color maps from the slim "Hong Kong" book also are in the back of the new "Hong Kong and Macau." The new book still uses the hard-to-read, hard-to-find B&W maps for the border towns and Macau's islands, but that's a quibble I can live with. Other general information throughout also seems to be current.
I've been looking over the new book for several days now, and overall, it seems that while the worst parts disappeared, the best stuff carried over to the new edition. For instance, I was glad to see that the map of Shenzhen still has the names of landmarks and hotels in Chinese, as well as English. Showing the Shenzhen taxi drivers the Chinese name of where you want to go is usually the only way for non-Chinese-speaking tourists to communicate their intended destination.
While the new edition is a great improvement, it was at least a year overdue. Three years is a long time to have to wait for an update when so much has changed here, given the change in sovereignty in both Hong Kong and Macau. The ninth edition came out just a couple of months after the Hong Kong handover, and *before* the Macau handover, for crying out loud.
I don't know if I could have honestly recommended the ninth edition of "Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou," but I certainly can do so for the 10th edition of "Hong Kong and Macau." Even if you don't plan on visiting here in the immediate future, it's an interesting read.
Reviewer: Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium)
Steve Fallon is a perfect guide for walking tours, itinaries, transport (Octopus card), accomodation, eating and shopping in both ancient Western colonies.
He gives us also an excellent summary of their histories.
This guide has also a useful map section, although it was not possible to indicate all the street names.
With its wealth of practical, cultural and historical information, this guide is a necessary companion for all Hong Kong and Macau visitors. It served me every day during my stay in both Western enclaves. I found Hong Kong fascinating. I was there for the 2004 Film Festival which had an excellent program (especially the documentaries) and a perfect organization.
On the contrary, Macau was a big disappointment. It is still in shambles.
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Hong Kong has something for everyone. You can join the gastronomes at ritzy restaurants or slurp noodles at neighbourhood food-stands;marvel at the bright lights on a harbour ferry cruise or explore the higgledy-piggledy laneways where the locals hang out. It's a glorious, crazy Chinese banques: let this smart, stylish and streetwis guide show you the menu.
·JOIN THE 'IN CROWD'in the most chichi cafes, bars and clubs:tell'em Lonely Planet sent you
·EAT WITH CONFIDENCE in the most authentic restaurants with our Chinese Food chapter
·SNAP UP THE BARGAINS using our insider shopping tips-they'll save you a fortune
·PICK UP THE PULSE of the city with our new'City Life' coverage
·GET AROUND with our easy-to-use, detailed colour maps
目录
Introducing Hong Kong
City Life
Arts & Architecture
Food
History
Districts & Islands
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