An Ultimate Reference Guide to Penang Hill

By Louise Goss-Custard

August 2017 BOOK REVIEW
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Penang Hill – A journey through time by Mike Gibby. Entrepot Publishing 2017.
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Photos and stories are aplenty in this volume to fascinate any lover of the island’s highlands.This comprehensive book will appeal to anyone who has plodded his or her way meditatively along a hill trail, or been driven in a buggy along Summit Road while asking themselves questions: what are these enormous boulders made from? Who lived in that bungalow and where did its name come from? Why are the hiker rest stops called “84” and “46”? What was the original...

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Louise Goss-Custard

is editor of the Penang Free Sheet (www.penangfreesheet.my), co-organiser of Open Studios Penang, and a keen flautist who plays with Penang’s best Irish band, the DramBand (www.facebook. com/DramBandPenang) and several local orchestras.


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