books by Jan Morris

books by Jan Morris

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Jan Morris

The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000
Jan Morris

W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

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 epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and cultures from Manhatten to ...

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (New ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor

NYRB Classics, 2005

Gar nichts!
The title above is German for "Absolutely nothing!", Fermor's droll reply to "What are you studying?" when visiting a scholar with his newfound Transylvanian friend Istvan, who laughs about such blasphemy all the way back from the visit. The polymathic Fermor had ...

The World of Venice: Revised Edition

Jan Morris

Harvest Books, 1995

For those in love with Venice or about to be
I am addicted both to travel and, increasingly, to writing about travel. Of the excessive number of books and articles I have read, this may be my favorite piece of travel writing of all. I visited Venice for the first time at the end of a brief trip to Italy, in ...

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris

NYRB Classics, 2005

Simply wonderful
Patrick Leigh Fermor's work is a joy to read. I brought it with me this past summer when I was living/traveling in the former Yugoslavia and I have as many fond memories of reading that book on long bus rides as some of the places I experienced. I ended up giving it ...

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress

Jan Morris

Harvest Books, 2002

This is the way to write and read history
This is the way to write (and read) history. Morris gives us silly, sad and wonderful tales of real people whose characters enliven the shadow of Britain as cast across the world stage, lengthening as year succeeds to year. This is the first of three volumes that ...

In Search of England

H. V. Morton, Jan Morris

Da Capo Press, 2002

Could Have Written for the New Yorker Magazine
What a great travel writer H.V. Morton is! He reminds me of Joseph Mitchell ("Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories"), who wrote of similar experiences in and around New York City for the New Yorker magazine in the 1930's, 40's and 50's. This book chronicles a ...

Conundrum (New York Review Books Classics)

Jan Morris

NYRB Classics, 2006

MAN ENOUGH TO BE A WOMAN...
This is an intriguing memoir, beautifully written by an author who has written numerous other non-fiction books. Jan Morris, formerly known as James Morris, was the correspondent for the London Times assigned to cover England's historic summit of Everest. The author ...

Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times

Olivier Bernier, Frank Bruni, ...

Harry N. Abrams, 2005

Great Gift
I got this beautiful book for two dear friends, brilliant musicians, who will be traveling to Italy soon. They were entranced, and have thanked me several times, saying the book makes them feel "as if we are already in Italy."

The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics)

Rose Macaulay

NYRB Classics, 2003

Eccentric And Touching
The Towers of Trebizond might mislead a reader who picks it up into thinking it to be a standard travel account of a journey to Turkey and the Middle East in the 1950s. However, the famous first line "Take my camel, dear . . ." will soon warn that there is much much ...

Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire

Jan Morris

Harvest Books, 2002

Empires Compared
This book is an exemplar of historical writing, about the British Empire at its peak, that should serve to tell Americans of today some of the advantages and hazards of an accumulating hegemony. The central event, around which the book is organized, is the Diamond ...

The World: Travels 1950-2000

Jan Morris

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

A journey through time and place
This book is excellent. The author's descriptions of the locations she visited over the past fifty years as a journalist are insightful and, in my mind, fairly accurate. She is more than a travel writer. Morris is an artist, taking what she sees in the places and ...

Great Exploration Hoaxes (Modern Library Exploration)

David Roberts

Modern Library, 2001

Readable, Breezy Look at Fascinating Hoaxes
David Roberts, in the re-released Great Exploration Hoaxes by Modern Library Exploration, looks at nine exploration hoaxes and one poor fellow (Abyssinian James Bruce) whose adventures turned out to be true while being believed as a hoax in his own lifetime. The short ...

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

Jan Morris

Da Capo Press, 2002

Trieste Is Magnificent
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is quite simply one of the best books I have ever read. Reading books like this is what makes life worth living. Jan Morris is a wonderful prose stylist. Her every sentence is a delight. I learnt so much about Trieste, from reading ...

Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America (Travelers' Tales Classics)

Jan Morris

Travelers' Tales, 2002

Envious Nostalgia
Written in what must be the heyday of the American Dream - before it became soured - this is Jan Morris's lighter travel through a different empire, inducing envy for not having experienced it ourselves and nostalgia for an America that has passed. The journey, ...

Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj
Jan Morris, Simon Winchester

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

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 settlement to the end of the Raj--some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it ...