HONG KONG LANDSCAPES Shaping the Bar
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ISBN：
9789622098473
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定價：
HK$ 250.00
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作者：
Bernie Owen
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語言：
英語
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出版社：
Hong Kong University Press
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分類：
地理旅遊
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出版日期：
2007-10-01
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發行日期：
2007-10-08
This book is for all people interested in Hong Kong's landscape and countryside.
Hong Kong has a largely mountainous terrain, very little flat land, no major rivers, no great forests, and a paucity of mineral wealth. The relative poverty of the place led the British Foreign Secretary to remark, in 1841, that Hong Kong was a “barren rock with hardly a house upon it”. Prior to that date, the rugged landscape of Hong Kong had evolved, with little human interference, over about 400 million years. Subsequently, large influxes of people and their farming, building, reclamation, and economic activities have markedly transformed that original landscape. This book explains, in simple terms and with numerous photographs and figures, the origins of these varied landscapes, examining the contributions of different rocks, geological structures, and modern processes, as well as the profound impact of people.
- '.... Now at last, and in a form eminently readable and deliciously colourful, we have the definitive guide: Bernie Owen and Raynor
Shaw have stripped the territory bare, from Tai Mo Shan to Po Toi, and in this wonderful book tell us what this most extraordinary of
places is really like, underneath it all.' — Simon Winchester, geologist and best-selling author, with three books on geology
- 'Hong Kong is notable for many things ... Less well known is its superb landscape ... Dealing with the impact both of geology and human activity, this book will make a real contribution to showing what makes Hong Kong such a remarkable place.' — David Wilson, former governor of Hong Kong, now Baron Wilson of Tillyorn
Bernie Owen and Raynor Shaw are geologists who have walked, investigated and photographed every corner of Hong Kong.
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