"Travelers' Tales Hong Kong will order and delight the senses, and heighten the sensibilities, whether you are an armchair traveler or an old China hand." --Gladys Mongomery Jones, Profiles Magazine, Continental Airlines

"Travelers' Tales Hong Kong is a most elegant, entertaining, and reliable way of getting to grips with the conundrum that is Hong Kong." --Jan Morris

"The Travelers' Tales series aims to convey the excitement of voyaging through exotic territory with a vivacity that guidebooks can only hint at." --Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

"Like gourmet chefs sampling the produce in an overstocked French market, the editors of Travelers' Tales pick, sift, and prod their way through the weighty shelves of contemporary travel writing, rejecting the second rate and creaming off the very best. They have impeccable taste -- a very welcome addition to the genre." --William Dalrymple, travel writer and author of City of Djinns and In Xanadu

"The Travelers' Tales series should become required reading for anyone visiting a foreign country who wants to truly step off the tourist track and experience another culture, another place, first-hand." --Nancy Paradis, St. Petersburg Times

"I'm thrilled to see a publication such as Travelers' Tales finally available to those of us who, when we're deciding how to approach our journeys, want something other than the encyclopedic formulae of even the best travel guides." --Scott Doggett, Los Angeles Times

"A revolutionary new style of travel guidebooks..." --New York Times News Service

"For travelers who want a wider introduction to a country and its culture, Travelers' Tales is a valuable addition to any pre-departure reading list." --Tony Wheeler, publisher, Lonely Planet Publications

"These anthologies seem destined to be a success.... Travelers' Tales promises to be a useful and enlightening addition to the travel bookshelves. By collecting and organizing such a wide range of literature, O'Reilly and Habegger are providing a real service for those who enjoy reading first-person accounts of a destination before seeing it for themselves." --Bill Newlin, publisher, Moon Publications