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MORRIS, JAN AMONG THE CITIES
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD 1986 0-14-007485-6 / 9780140074857 Paperback Very Good
"For the last 30 years, Morris has been a connoisseur of the world's great cities, and her newspaper and magazine articles about them have established her as one of our foremost travel writers....This anthology presents 37 of her best urban portraits."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Morris, Jan Fifty Years of Europe: An Album
Penguin Books Ltd July 30, 1998 0-14-025018-2 / 9780140250183 Paperback Near Fine
Using vignettes, portraits, quotations, passages of reminiscence, contempla tion and comparison, this text presents a panoramic and idiosyncratic impre ssion of Europe in a period of fateful transition.
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Morris, Jan The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd 29 May 1986 0-14-008263-8 / 9780140082630 Paperback Near Fine
You must look hard to find Wales in an Atlas, for it is a penninsula not mu ch larger than Swaziland, and inhabited by 2.5 million people. It is called Cymru by its own people, and is tucked away in the British archpelago. Wal es has a capital city, not a government, has its own postage stamps but not a currency, a flag but no embassies, and an indiginous language but no ind igenous laws. Wales has been absorbed into the political entity of Great Britain, with it s seat of power in London. The King or Queen of England is willy-nilly the sovereign of Wales, and the hier to the British throne is known as the Prin ce of Wales. Join Jan Morris as she takes you on a tour of the Country of Wales, with stories and information, maps and anecdotes. A very interesting read.
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Morris, Jan The World of Venice: Revised Edition
Mariner Books May 12, 1995 0-15-698356-7 / 9780156983563 Paperback Good
Slight wear to front cover, no markings throughout: Morris presents this revised edition of her popular guide to the city's art, culture, people and cuisine, with a new preface.
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Morris, Jan The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000
W. W. Norton & Company April 17, 2005 0-393-32648-9 / 9780393326482 Paperback Very Good
Small crease to front cover, o/w no markings throughout: 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 history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and cultures from Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles fifty years of Morris's finest travel writing. With eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successful ascent of Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the handover of Hong Kong, The World promises to create an entirely new generation of Jan Morris readers. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2003.
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Morris, Jan Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Faber and Faber October 1, 2002 0-571-20468-6 / 9780571204687 Paperback Very Good
Located on a narrow, mountainous finger of Italy hard by Croatia and Sloven ia, the port city of Trieste is little-visited and seldom in the news. As J an Morris, who first came to Trieste as the English soldier James Morris in 1945, writes, "It offers no unforgettable landmark, no universally familia r melody, no unmistakable cuisine, hardly a single native name that anyone knows." Yet, as historian and travel writer Morris ably demonstrates in thi s homage to one of her favourite cities (others about which she has written are Hong Kong, Sydney, New York, and Venice ), Trieste has many charms. It s history is foremost among them, thanks to the city's former role as the s ole port of the otherwise-landlocked Austro-Hungarian empire, which housed a small fleet there--a fleet which, from time to time, would sail off to ma ke war against the Ottomans or the Italians.
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Morris, Jan Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Da Capo Press September 3, 20 0-306-81180-4 / 9780306811807 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: With fluid, expressive prose, Welsh writer Morris (Lincoln) delivers an intriguing vision of the small seaside Italian city of Trieste. In an account that is part detailed history, part melancholy remembrance, Morris offers a vivid and loving description of a place and an eloquent reflection on growing old. In this slim volume, supposedly Morris's last, the author brilliantly weaves historic and personal memories (as the soldier James Morris, before her sex-change operation, she was stationed there during WWII), observations on love, lust, nationalism, exile and kindness, and a tender portrait of the oft-forgotten city. From glory to exile, from affluence to desertion, Morris shares the city's triumphs and hardships as one would the life story of an old and well-loved friend with affection, respect and a cheerful acceptance of little personality quirks. Tossed between Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia and finally back to Italy, Trieste, once one of the greatest port cities in the world, is now a sleepy town on the "end of its Italian umbilical." Morris writes, "So it is with me, after a lifetime of describing the planet, and I look at Trieste now as I would look into a mirror.... Much of this little book, then, has been a self-description." Populated with the well-drawn ghosts of such luminaries as James Joyce, Sir Richard Francis Burton and other "exiles" who made the city their home for a time, Morris's "little book" is as exuberant as it is bittersweet, as resigned as it is wistful.
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