ISBN-13: 9789889979966
Hardback: 72 pages, full colour
Size: 21.8 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm
Published: October 2007
Price: HK$188 / US$23.95
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 Sketches of Sai
Kung
by Lorette Roberts
ART
From Clearwater Bay to
Tai Long Wan, the Sai Kung Peninsula is Hong Kong’s back garden – a
place where people go to swim, hike, eat seafood alfresco, and otherwise
escape the city. But besides the popular beaches and waterfront
restaurants, there is an abundance of hidden attractions, and Lorette E.
Roberts has discovered them for this book.
In these pages you’ll
find rolling green hills, weekend junk trips, gambling grannies and
pooches on parade; walled village houses and old film studios; Sung
dynasty temples and rice farmers’ implements; fish markets, folk museums
and wakeboarding clubs; a Chinese herbalist’s shop and the tools of
ancient trades; sampan ladies, fleets of ferries, and ships of all
shapes!
Third in a series of
bestselling books, Sketches of Sai Kung paints this beautiful area of
Hong Kong in a new light.
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AUTHOR APPEARANCES
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Book signing: 2pm, Sat 13th
October, at Steamers, Sai Kung.
> Book launch: 6:30pm, Weds
17th October, at Bookazine, Central.
MEDIA ATTENTION
"...Roberts' sketches
are quirky and subjects quaint –
this coupled with short descriptions from the author makes the breezy book
strangely compelling."
–
LeeAnn Bennett, HK Magazine
Lorette spoke to Radio
3's Sarah Passmore on the Naked Lunch. Listen in at the
RTHK archive.
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