Hong Kong Landscapes - Shaping the Barren Rock

ISBN-13: 9789622098473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 264 str.

Raynor Shaw

Opis

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.