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  • The Venetian Empire

    A Sea Voyage

    by Jan Morris ...
    For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

    by Jan Morris ...
    One hundred years ago, Trieste was the chief seaport of the entire Austro-Hungarian empire, but today many people have no idea where it is. This fascinating Italian city on the Adriatic, bordering the former Yugoslavia, has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and melancholy. She has chosen it as the subject of this, her final work, because it was the first city she knew as an adult -- ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Best Traveled Man on Earth

    by Jan Morris ...
    Six centuries ago, the Islamic world was the pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the twelfth-century diaries of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who spent thirty years journeying some 73,000 miles. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed writer and bestselling author Jan Morris, in the little-known story of perhaps the greatest traveler of all time. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sultan in Oman

    by Jan Morris ...
    In 1955 the winds of change were beginning to blow across the Sultanate of Oman, a hitherto truly medieval state. Rumours of subversion mingled with the unsettling smell of oil to propel the Sultan on a royal progress across the desert hinterland, from his southern capital of Salala to the northern capital of Muscat. It was an historic journey – the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hong Kong

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lonely Planet By the Seat of My Pants

    by Simon Winchester, Sean Condon, Don George, Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Danny Wallace, Wickham Boyle, Tim Cahill, Joshua Clark ...
    Series series Lonely Planet Travel Literature
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Moonlit Night

    by Caradog Prichard, Jan Morris ...
    Translated by Philip Mitchell ...
    This autobiographical coming of age classic offers a "visceral, comic and tragic" portrait of rural life in Wales during the Great War ( The Guardian, UK).Named the greatest Welsh novel by the Wales Arts Review, this beautifully rendered novel tells of a boy's hardscrabble life in rural Wales and his challenging—yet at times transcendent—journey into adulthood. In the 1910s, the village of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conundrum

    by Jan Morris ...
    One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).“A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times“An exquisite read.”—Maria Popova, The MarginalianThe great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Oxford

    by Jan Morris ...
    'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. 'A book of outstanding excellence, with a sweep of knowledge and a distinction of style such as I have never before encountered in a work of this sort ... ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Alexandria Quartet

    Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series series The Alexandria Quartet
    The New York Times –bestselling author's four-part story of passion and betrayal—voted one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century.The Alexandria Quartet is a striking and sensuous masterpiece, breathing vivid life into each of its unforgettable characters and the dusty Mediterranean city in which they live. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before, during, and after ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coronation Everest

    by Jan Morris ...
    'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester This classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop. 'It was Morris who broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary

    by Jan Morris ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionRiffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection.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 ... Read more

    $17.09 USD