This classic account offers an intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop, as it was Morris who, in 1953, broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount Everest the day before the Queen's coronation.
This classic account offers an intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Flee...
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created - but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shinest'.
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created - but the most hyperb...
In 'Contact ' Jan turns her observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses.
In 'Contact ' Jan turns her observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only...
Depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire, this text tells the story from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her diamond jubilee in 1897.
Depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire, this text tells the story from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her diamond jubilee in 1897...
This is the second volume of the series depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire. Here Morris describes the Empire at its moment of climax at the diamond jubilee of 1897.
This is the second volume of the series depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire. Here Morris describes the Empire at its moment of climax...
In 1955 the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, southeast of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Sea, was a truly medieval Islamic State, shuttered against all progress under the aegis of its traditionalist and autocratic ruler. But it was also nearly the end of an imperial line, for in those days the British Government was still powerful in Arabia. Rumors of subversion and the intrigues of foreign powers mingled with the unsettling smell of oil to propel the sultan on a royal progress across the desert hinterland. It was an historic journey--the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar. Jan Morris...
In 1955 the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, southeast of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Sea, was a truly medieval Islamic State, shuttered against all prog...
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'.
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 eno...
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.
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 accl...
