This is the first full-length study of Jan Morris, one of Britain's foremost travel essayist and popular historians. It takes a critical look at a unique writer who after spendi...
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Jan Morris
Alan Whicker; Arturo Di; Colin Thubron · ISBN 9781854114242
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti nidottu
"Tributes are tricky things. Too fawningly sentimental, they render the subject fantastical; too rigorously factual, they read like an obituary. This celebration of Jan Morris a...
‘A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris’s favourite word in her final days) kindness.’ The Sunday Times ‘A measured and elegant biography that Morris aficionados will find fa...
‘A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris’s favourite word in her final days) kindness.’ The Sunday Times The first full account of the remarkable life of Jan Morris: writer, s...
'Wonderful.' Paul Theroux 'Brilliant.' Simon Jenkins 'Superb.' Colin Thubron 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin A captivating authorised biography of the legendary writer Jan...
A spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris. When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Eve...
Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
Paul Clements · ISBN 9781950354924
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti sidottu
"No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career--from travel to history to her own transition--she did so with insight, elegance and unfli...
For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and iso...
Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the bui...
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
Jan Morris · ISBN 9780156028011
Julkaistu 2002 Kieli englanti nidottu
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on di...
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
Jan Morris · ISBN 9780156302869
Julkaistu 1980 Kieli englanti nidottu
This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece... a] book filled with superb studies of battle...
The World of Venice: Revised Edition
Jan Morris · ISBN 9780156983563
Julkaistu 1995 Kieli englanti nidottu
A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerf...
An account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. This book is intended for all those interested in the lo...
No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India: the buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted - from the first trading s...
Contains ten essays that brilliantly recapture the essence of places as diverse as Washington just after Watergate, Delhi under Mrs. Gandhi, Panama, Los Angeles, Southern Africa...
Hailed by Alistair Cooke as the 'Flaubert of the jet age', Jan Morris's ability to capture the surface and essence of a place has secured her reputation as a leading contemporar...
No one, since the days of the great Arab travelers, has described so much of the known world as Jan Morris. Considered by many the preeminent travel writer of our age, she now o...
With a fresh eye and inimitable style, the peerless travel and history writer Jan Morris journeys through the life of Abraham Lincoln to sketch an insightful new portrait of Ame...
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere
Jan Morris · ISBN 9780306811807
Julkaistu 2002 Kieli englanti pokkari
Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more...
Shares the author's eyewitness accounts of such historical moments as the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the reli...