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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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
Sydney by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created...but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shinest'.
The World of Venice - Revised Edition by James Morris; Jan Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer). New Fo ...Show more
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
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)
Venice by Jan Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
An evocation of Venice which uses vivid prose, humour and irony to present a personal portrait of an eccentric city.
Venice for Pleasure by J. G. Links; Jan Morris (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Now in its seventh revised edition, Venice for Pleasure has become a minor classic, remaining in print for more than 30 years. "Its simple object," in the author's own words, "is to guide the reader to places he might otherwise miss and, having reached them, to tell him what he might wish to know and th ...Show more
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