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A Venetian Bestiary by Jan Morris (illus Bevis martin)
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"A Venetian Bestiary" is a celebration in words and pictures of a 'mighty menagerie of fact and fantasy': the animals of Venice, from its ubiquitous cats and barge dogs to the Golden Stallions and Winged Lion of St Mark. Illustrated with some of the many creatures who inhabit the city, the book is an en ...Show more
A Writer's World : Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late-twentieth century - from New York to Venice, from the first ascent of Everest to the fall of the Berlin Wall. First published 2003.
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'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
Ciao, Carpaccio! An Infatuation by JAN MORRIS
$39.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | 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
Coast to Coast by Jan Morris
$26.99 AUD
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
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 wor ...Show more
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
Europe - An Intimate Journey by Jan Morris
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait o ...Show more
Hav (comprising Last letters from Hav & Hav of the Myrmidons) by Jan Morris
$23.95 AUD
Category: 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
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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