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This collection of the best literature on life and travel in Italy is completely revised and updated, and features articles from authors that include Tim Parks, Patricia Hampl, Mary Taylor Simeti, and others. Illustrations. Maps.

This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The opening volume of Morris's "Pax Britannica Trilogy, " this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance, and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. Acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city and the era in all its romantic grandeur.

Now in paperback, Morris looks past Lincoln's saintly image and log-cabin legend to conjure him in public and in private, as politician and as father, as commander-in-chief and as husband. "A marvelously compressed and persuasive portrayal of this most iconic of American presidents".--"New York Times Book Review".

In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong t...

The author spent the South African winter of 1957 touring the country for the Guardian. This book presents an evocation of the atmosphere of apartheid, and an impression of life in South Africa at a time of great tension.

When Jan Morris first visited the United States, she was overwhelmed (and irritated) by the national obsession with Abraham Lincoln. So she resolved to make up her own mind, visiting the landmarks of his life to do so. This book, blending fact, narrative and imagination, is the result.

Geld regiert die Welt. Doch wer regiert das Geld? Lord Josiah Charles Stamp, der ehemalige Direktor der Bank of England und einst einer der reichsten Männer der Welt, erklärte 1937: "Das moderne Bankwesen produziert Geld aus dem Nichts. Dieser Vorgang ist vielleicht die erstaunlichste Erfindung in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Die Banker besitzen die Erde. Nimm den Bankern die Erde weg, aber lass ihnen die Macht, Geld zu schöpfen, dann werde...