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100 Journeys for the SpiritSacred - Inspiring - Mysterious - Enlightening by Michael Ondaatje (Contribution by); Alexander McCall Smith (Contribution by); Joseph M. Marshall III (Contribution by); Andrew Motion (Contribution by); Jan Morris (Contribution by); Mark Tully (Contribution by); Paul Theroux (Contribution by); Pico Iyer (Foreword by); Joan Duncan Oliver
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Sacred grounds and even simple landscapes can put us in direct touch with the spirit. From the prehistoric megaliths of Carnac in Brittany to the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, Iran, to the giant medicine wheel at Bighorn, Wyoming, 100 Journeys for the Spirit reveals the mysticism enveloped in these tr ...Show more
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
Category: Non-Fiction
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
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
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
Battleship Yamato - Of War, Beauty and Irony by Jan Morris
Category: Military
The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai--the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciou ...Show more
Ciao, Carpaccio! An Infatuation by JAN MORRIS
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"After a good dinner one evening, with excellent company and a bottle of wine, I settled by my fire with a volume of paintings by the 15th century Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio. For much of my life I have been under the spell of this artist. I am no connoisseur, cultural scholar or art historian. I ...Show more
Ciao, Carpaccio! - An Infatuation by Jan Morris
Category: Art
In the course of writing Venice, her 1961 classic, Jan Morris became fascinated by the historical presence of a sometimes-overlooked Venetian painter. Nowadays the name of Vittore Carpaccio (1460 1520) suggests raw beef, but to Morris it conveyed far more profound meanings. Thus began a lifelong infatua ...Show more
Coast to Coast by Jan Morris
Category: Travel
Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane. In her words a 'period piece', "Coast to Coast" describes an American identity markedly different from today. In her brilliant pr ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Category: Self-Help | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with se ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
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
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
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