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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 to write her daily musings.

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, New York Times Book Review). "Like Michel de Montaigne" (Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal), Morris waxes on the ironies of modern life in all their resonant glories and inevitable st...

»Ich war drei oder vielleicht vier Jahre alt, als mir aufging, dass ich in den falschen Körper geboren worden war und inWirklichkeit eigentlich ein Mädchen sein sollte. Ich erinnere mich an diesen Augenblick genau, es ist meine früheste Erinnerung.«Als James Morris geboren, zeichnete er sich im britischen Militär aus, wurde ein erfolgreicher und mutiger Reporter, erklomm Berge und durchquerte Wüsten. Er war glücklich verheiratet, hatte vier Ki...

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Illustrated with several photographs, plans and drawings, this book covers the story of the village, the extensive gardens both at Portmeirion and Plas Brondanw, the Williams-Ellis family home, and Portmeirion Pottery.

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 to write her daily musings.

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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 affectionate takes on a range of subjects. For fans of Alan Bennett's diaries and Bill Bryson.

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 Venice and Trieste, embarks on an entirely new literary enterprise-a collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year. Ranging widely from the idylli...

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 affectionate takes on a range of subjects. For fans of Alan Bennett's diaries and Bill Bryson.

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 Observer). New Foreword by the Author. Index.

As a contribution to the 1995 UK Year of Literature, this anthology presents the favourite poems of famous Welsh people and is accompanied by reasons for the various choices. All proceeds from the book will be donated to Shelter Cymru (Registered Charity No 515902) to help the homeless in Wales.

A genial, witty, and touching journey through the endlessly evocative art of Carpaccio. Saluting the painter whose pictures remain some of the most enchanting ever made of Venice, Jan Morris makes her own last journey to a city she has written about like no other.

A genial, witty, and touching journey through the endlessly evocative art of Carpaccio. Saluting the painter whose pictures remain some of the most enchanting ever made of Venice, Jan Morris makes her own last journey to a city she has written about like no other.

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 wri...

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 honour, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness.

As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. On first publication in 1974, the book generated enormous interest around the world, and was chosen by The Times as one of the '100 Key Books of Our Time'.