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  • von Jan Morris
    42,00 €

    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

  • von Jan Morris
    42,00 €

    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

  • - Life and Travel 1950-2000
    von Jan Morris
    30,00 €

    "The travel book of the season."-Craig Seligman, New York Times Book Review

  • - A Passage Through New York
    von Jan Morris
    25,00 €

    Explores the waterfronts and thoroughfares of 1950's Manhattan. This book depicts the city as a place of constant motion, which has been translated into a culture of inveterate restlessness.

  • von Jan Morris
    28,00 €

    Offers a collection which presents the author's personal selection of travel pieces, with definitive evocations of places as different as Alexandria and Bath, Warsaw and Wyoming.

  • von Jan Morris
    19,00 €

    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.

  • von Jan Morris
    24,00 €

    'We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transporting us to other realms.' Salley VickersThe Hashemites are the oldest, proudest, most romantic and most tragic family of Greater Arabia.

  • von Jan Morris
    29,00 €

    showing us the enthralling interplay of politics, avarice, hate, national pride, and religious fanaticism in that part of the globe.' The New YorkerThe Market of Seleukia is a portrait of the Middle East at the catalytic moment of the Suez Crisis.

  • - Epilogue to an Empire
    von Jan Morris
    26,00 €

    she is aware of rootlessness in the teeming energy.' TLS'The book captures the contradictions and mad terror of Hong Kong better than could a novel - it's a dramatic documentary ...

  • - A Foreigner's Quest
    von Jan Morris
    21,00 €

    When Jan Morris first visited the United States, she was overwhelmed (and irritated) by the national obsession with Abraham Lincoln: the homespun myth of the awkward six-foot-four country boy who rose to unite the nation seemed too good to be true.

  • - Essays from `Rolling Stone'
    von Jan Morris
    46,00 €

    Combining impressionism, history, and political interpretation, Morris's essays convey the essence of places as diverse as post-Watergate Washington, Manhattan, Delhi under Mrs. Gandhi, and Los Angeles.

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