James Morris, Author, Jan Morris, Author Mariner Books $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-698356-3
Morris presents this revised edition of her popular guide to the city's art, culture, people and cuisine, with a new preface. (May)
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Jan Morris, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0128-5
With fluid, expressive prose, Welsh writer Morris (Lincoln) delivers an intriguing vision of the small seaside Italian city of Trieste. In an account that is part detailed history, part melancholy remembrance, Morris offers a vivid and loving...
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Jan Morris, Author . National Geographic $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6523-8
With simple elegance and grace, renowned travel writer Morris (Pax Britannica) reflects on her home in Wales, its beautiful setting and the nature of being Welsh. First in a series of literary travel memoirs, this slim and charming volume offers a...
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Jan Morris, Author . Norton $27.95 (458p) ISBN 978-0-393-05208-4
This collection of essays and excerpts from the globe-spanning career of Morris, one of the most admired and imitated travel writers alive, is fantastic in its depth and breadth. But whether it also succeeds as a portrait of the world in the years...
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Jan Morris, Author Vintage Books USA $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73131-3
This follow-up to Conundrum , Morris's account of her sex-change operation, is intended as a celebration of personal pleasures; the author revels in everyday sensual experiences, writes of her travels and shares her political and social viewpoints....
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Jan Morris, Author Villard Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41610-4
Morris has led such a varied life and traveled so widely that this collection, which she calls an ""album,"" brims with extraordinary associations, byte-sized sidelights on places and history, and stimulating opinions. The Anglo-Welsh author of more
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Jan Morris, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-85515-8
The Lincoln revealed by British writer Morris is a far cry from the Honest Abe of popular myth: she finds an ""unpleasant side"" to the president's nature, an ""element of the mountebank"" that ""led him into spite or mayhem."" But what else, Morris
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Jan Morris, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-394-57649-7
Travel writer and essayist Morris states here that she wrote this celebration of personal pleasures as an obverse to Conundrum , her 1974 account of her sex-change operation and search for self-definition. In this idiosyncratic potpourri she extols...
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Jan Morris, Author Random House (NY) $22.5 (359p) ISBN 978-0-394-55097-8
Overlooking one of the world's finest natural harbors, the crowded, glittering, hilly British crown colony of Hong Kong is a major banking, commercial, industrial and transportation center. In this well-written albeit overly detailed overview, noted
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Jan Morris, Author Prentice Hall $24.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-13-824152-0
Originally published in 1964 when the author was still known as James Morris and somewhat revised in 1979, Spain is here reissued in a fussily designed edition. Despite the fact that it portrays the country at the point when it was about to emerge...
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Jan Morris, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (369p) ISBN 978-0-679-72486-5
In this ``well-written, albeit overly detailed overview,'' Morris alternates chapters on Hong Kong's history with descriptions of its geography, economy, politics and society, interspersing word-portraits of some of its leading rulers and...
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Jan Morris, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-018328-8
In splendid profiles of 10 Canadian cites and towns, travel writer Morris ( Destinations ) demonstrates the rich diversity of the country's mores, values and social and political systems, which, she insists, differ widely from those of the U.S. The...
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Jan Morris, Author Random House (NY) $23 (300p) ISBN 978-0-679-41609-8
Flamboyant, swaggering Lord Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-1920), commander of the Royal Navy, transformed a complacent instrument of the British Empire into a modern fleet whose blockade strangled Germany and helped the Allies win WWI. In...
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Jan Morris, Author, James Morris, Author Burford Books $14.95 (150p) ISBN 978-1-58080-047-1
More than 29,000 feet above sea level amid the desolation and frost of the Himalayas looms the sublime summit of Mount Everest, the very top of the world. Special correspondent for the London Times and an eyewitness to the climb, Morris (then James...
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Jan Morris, Author, David Rosenthal, Editor Random House (NY) $22.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-394-55098-5
Elegantly written and charmingly impressionistic, this newest addition to the author's distinguished series of travel books ( Hong Kong ; Venice ) paints a vivid picture of Australia's largest city. Founded in 1788, when England sent its first...
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Jan Morris. Norton/Liveright, $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-87140-799-3
In this ebullient homage to the Venetian artist, Vittore Carpaccio (1460–1520)—today better known for the raw meat dish named for him than his early Renaissance narrative paintings—historian and travel writer Morris (Venice) compensates for her lack
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Jan Morris. Liveright, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-163149-536-6
Morris, author of more than 40 books (most recently Battleship Yamato), offers a slim collection of 186 pithy diary entries that invite readers into her sunny, though sometimes dark, ruminations. With wit and just a bit of self-reproach, she...
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Jan Morris. Liveright, $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-87140-414-5
This shrewd posthumous collection from Morris (1926–2020) (Thinking Again) showcases the prolific writer’s personal musings and memories. The 45 essays are bite-size, and in the foreword, Morris calls the entries her most personal. True to her...
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