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Allegorizings by Jan Morris
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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
Conundrum by Jan Morris
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Category: Biography
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
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
In My Mind's Eye - A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Spain by Jan Morris
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"Spain" is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain's pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half the world ...Pass ...Show more
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
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Category: Biography
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. From her home in the North West of Wale ...Show more
Trieste by Jan Morris
23.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Paperback (B-Format)
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