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Author:Jan Morris
A Writer's House in Wales
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales,...- $20.00
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Author:Jan Morris
Allegorizings
Not so long ago, feeling intimations of mortality, Jan Morris embarked on a wholly novel literary enterprise. What began as a series of high-minded letters to her late daughter--in the style of Lord Chesterfield addressing his son--quickly transformed itself into a potpourri of mini-essays...- $24.95
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Author:Jan Morris
Among the Cities
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 offers this retrospective selection of her best writings. Including 37 pieces,...- $32.99
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Author:Jan Morris
Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony
The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai--the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese...- $15.95
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Author:Jan Morris
Conundrum
One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is "the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex" (Newsweek). "A profoundly poetic story." --The New York Times"An exquisite read." --Maria Popova, The...- $16.95
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Author:Jan Morris
Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone
In these essays which originally appeared in Rolling Stone, Jan Morris captures the essence of places as diverse as Washington just after Watergate, Delhi under Mrs. Gandhi, Panama on the eve of the U.S. treaty debate, and Cairo at the time of the Israeli-Egyptian...- $24.99
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Author:Jan Morris
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
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 battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters" (New York Times Book Review). Index. A Helen and Kurt...- $40.00
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Author:Jan Morris
Hav: Last Letters from Hav of the Myrmidons
"Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged" in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times). "A touching lover letter . . . to life itself"--featuring Last Letters from Hav, shortlisted for the...- $19.95
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Author:Jan Morris
Heaven's Command
The opening volume of Morris's "Pax Britannica Trilogy," this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt...- $40.00
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Author:Jan Morris
Hong Kong
In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet...- $20.00
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Author:Jan Morris
In My Mind's Eye Lib/E: A Thought Diary
Author: Jan MorrisISBN-10: 1665128488ISBN-13: 9781665128483Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2019Format: CD- $19.99
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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary
Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling readers since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved ninety-two-year-old, author of classics such as...- $24.95
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Author:Jan Morris
Journeys
Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about "romantic re-visits" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal.Author: Jan MorrisISBN-10: 0195036069ISBN-13: 9780195036060Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/1985Pages: 192Format:...- $37.99
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Author:Jan Morris
Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest
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 America's sixteenth president, one of our greatest and most enigmatic figures. Looking past his saintly...- $19.99
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Author:Jan Morris
Manhattan '45
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan...- $29.00
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Author:Jan Morris
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
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 diverse peoples of the world. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookAuthor: Jan MorrisISBN-10: 0156028018ISBN-13: 9780156028011Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage:...- $40.00
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Author:Jan Morris
The World of Venice
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 powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The...- $35.00
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Author:Jan Morris
The World of Venice: Revised Edition
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 powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The...- $19.99
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Author:Jan Morris
The World: Travels 1950-2000
The first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century...- $28.95
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Author:Jan Morris
Thinking Again: A Diary
The irrepressible Jan Morris--author of such classics as Venice and Trieste--is at it again: offering a vibrant set of reminiscences that remind us "what a good, wise and witty companion Jan Morris has been for so many readers for so long" (Alexander McCall Smith,...- $24.00
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Author:Jan Morris
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
A book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste. This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come...- $15.00
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