Hong Kong's wild places : an environmental exploration / Edward Stokes
- Bib ID:
- 971418
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stokes, Edward, 1948-
- Description:
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- Hong Kong ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- xiii, 198 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195866010
- Invalid ISBN:
- 0195874366
- Summary:
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Follow Edward Stokes on this unforgettable journey across Hong Kong's natural landscape, and learn along the way the story of Hong Kong's environment. By way of photographs and lively narrative the author takes us through Hong Kong's wild placestowering peaks, grassy hills, wooded valleys, and coastal waters -revealing the surprisingly varied life that survives among them. This book documents the dramatic changes to Hong Kong's hills, valleys, and coasts, from their natural origins millions of years ago to the effects of widespread development in the 1990s. The author brings to light the unrelenting natural and man-made challenges to Hong Kong's environment - climatic conditions, population pressure, industrialization, and pollution. He celebrates the present beauty and grandeur of the remaining wild places, and highlights the recent damage wrought by man.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Primeval Landscape
- 2. The Central Mountains
- 3. 5000 BC-AD 1841 Settling the Land
- 4. Southern Islands
- 5. 1841-1900 That Barren Rock
- 6. Hong Kong Island
- 7. 1900-1941 Enduring Domains
- 8. Sai Kung Peninsula
- 9. 1945-1970 A Phoenix Rises
- 10. Lantau Island
- 11. 1970-1990 Commuter Countryside
- 12. The Remote North-East
- 13. 1990 and Beyond Vanishing Wild Places
- 14. The Mai Po Wetlands
- 15. Conclusion The Future Challenge
- Hiking and Conservation Notes.
- Notes:
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- Color map of Hong Kong harbour on end papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-194) and index.
- Library's copy (N, GE/P22/1/35) signed by the author.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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