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Allegorizings by Jan Morris
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In "Contact!", Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the wo ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Conundrum by Jan Morris
26.95 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
The writer Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
Hav (comprising Last letters from Hav & Hav of the Myrmidons) by Jan Morris
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Hav" gives us Jan Morris at her most delightful and most suggestive. The city is a magical place - yet behind its arcane splendours are darker implications. The traditional Roof Race is peculiarly exciting, the waterfront is picturesque, the wistful call of a trumpeter from a distant rampart is wonderf ...Show more
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress Volume 1 by Jan Morris
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plan ...Show more
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
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
Pax Britannica Vol 2 by Jan Morris
29.99 NZD
Category: History
The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height o ...Show more
Sydney by Jan Morris
28.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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'.
Trieste by Jan Morris
26.95 NZD
28.99 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
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)