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A Venetian Bestiary by Jan Morris (illus Bevis martin)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
"A Venetian Bestiary" is a celebration in words and pictures of a 'mighty menagerie of fact and fantasy': the animals of Venice, from its ubiquitous cats and barge dogs to the Golden Stallions and Winged Lion of St Mark. Illustrated with some of the many creatures who inhabit the city, the book is an en ...Show more
A Writer's World : Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late-twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the Berlin Wall. First published 2003.
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichm ...Show more
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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 transformed itself into a potpourri of mini-essays and vibrant r ...Show more
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In "Contact!" Jan turns her brilliantly 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 wor ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book ...Show more
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress Volume 1 by Jan Morris
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plan ...Show more
In My Mind's Eye - A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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, embark ...Show more
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers.' The Times'Fascinating ... valuable and rare. This book is a writer's constitutional.' Kate Kellaway, Observer'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth dec ...Show more
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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. In "Manhattan '45", acclaimed travel ...Show more
Pax Britannica Vol 2 by Jan Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height o ...Show more