Jan Morris
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
143 p. : 1 map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and cattle of a working Welsh farm.
She regards this modest...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jan Morris (1926-2020), the world-renowned writer, delivers her final volume, brimming with vibrant reminiscenses, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana. 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...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 14 x 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary--and strikingly illustrated--reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. 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 national consciousness. Stoically poised for...
15) Manhattan '45
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
273 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
18) Journeys
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
viii, 173 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages : color illustrations ; 14 x 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ciao, Carpaccio! Veteran travel writer Jan Morris hails the Venetian Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio in this charming homage to his work. In the course of writing her classic book on Venice, Morris became utterly enchanted with the historical presence of this sometimes-overlooked artist. Now she indulges her infatuation with this handsomely designed and imminently entertaining exploration that ranges from biography to art interpretation to...
20) Among the cities
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
