Go for a walk along the beach at dawn.

Lam Chiu-ying (Former Director of the Hong Kong Observatory): In this book, Man-hoi Lam takes us across Hong Kong, from mountain waterfalls down rivers to estuarine mudflats, from remote villages to the few remaining natural corners beside luxury housing estates. No matter where, she finds traces of nature's relentless efforts to survive.
　
Amy Yu (Programme Coordinator, Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Hong Kong): "Walking to the Sea Before Dawn" addresses the folding of ecology, history, the city, and personal relationships, making it a rare multi-faceted work.

Lee Chi-leung (Writer): Through the editing and exchange of scenes, texts, and narrative voices, readers follow the survivor's "surrogate bodily consciousness" to observe, perceive, and traverse an alternative path of "my city."

This is a collection of essays about Hong Kong's ecological writing, as well as a travelogue of Hong Kong that reflects its humanistic history. Along the islands and the coastline of the Kowloon Peninsula within Hong Kong, it folds in the author's memories of growing up. In the crevices of sunlight, the text reveals the intimacy and estrangement between the individual and the city, and between the individual and nature.