Roddy of the Oriental-List gives the heads up about Hiking in Beijing by Seema Bennett, Nicky Mason, Huilin Pinnegar, three members of the Beijing Hikers club. From his e-mail: I've just been given a copy of a new (2003, anyway) book 'Hiking Around Beijing'. It's written by members of Beijing's Beijing Hikers group, which as many of you will know loads up a bus or two with ex-pats every weekend, takes them for a nice long walk and then drops them off back at Starbucks outside the Lido Hotel. 20 routes are explained in great detail, graded for difficulty, and points of interest covered. Maps are given, which appear clear enough despite being handdrawn. Characters and pinyin are used for placenames The book is published by the Foreign Language Press in Beijing, but is not available on Amazon. The China Daily has a review in English, and the book may be available for purchase through the Chinese Medicine Bookstore. --I'm glad to have a high-speed connection to the Internet, because it means that Ziboy loads ten times more quickly.