The diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the "Financial Times" over the course of 2017 are brought together here, marking the former soldier and journalist turning ninety while offering her perceptive and alternately scabrous and...

The Italian city of Trieste on the Adriatic has always tantalized the author. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations. This lyrical travelogue is...

A new edition of this remarkable and honest account of one of Britain's most-loved travel writers' ten-year transition to womanhood. von Morris, Jan

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as...

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. von Morris, Jan

The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour....

Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill...

Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In My Mind's Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued...

A new "Faber Modern Classics" edition of a travel writing classic often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written. A beautifully-written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past....

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"Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest" von Jan Morris ist eine einzigartige Biographie des 16. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, Abraham Lincoln. Der Autor, ein britischer Historiker und Reiseschriftsteller, bietet eine europäische...