Macao: Peoples and Places, Past and Present

Every now and then, a reviewer has the pleasure of being able to write about a book that he has really enjoyed reading and which gives him only pleasure to review. One might expect such a book to be both short and on a subject of which the reviewer might claim a little prior knowledge, but Jason Wordie's Macao: Peoples and Places, Past and Present is neither of these things. It is mammoth in size, nearly 450 large pages in length and heavy to hold. I confess to a woeful ignorance of the place it describes so lyrically.