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Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements 9781914484773
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times The first full account of the remarkable life of Jan Morris: writer, soldier, traveller,... -
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times 'A measured and elegant biography that Morris aficionados will find fascinating.' The Times... -
Venice by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background... -
Sydney by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Renowned 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 shiniest.'... -
Hav by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Hav 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... -
Trieste by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and... -
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality,... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jan 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... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Farewell 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... -
Venice Jan Morris 9780571396634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Coronation Everest by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester? Coronation Everest offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of... -
Conundrum Jan Morris 9780571341139
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As 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... -
Hav by Jan Morris 9781590174494
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174494Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.68The 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... -
Conundrum by Jan Morris 9781590171899
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171899Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Necrophilia 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... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging... -
Allegorizings Jan Morris 9780571234141
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.89'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... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Spain 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... -
Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192801364
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.19'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one... -
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
Booksplease Price: £13.09Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century,... -
Sultan in Oman Jan Morris 9781906011178
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906011178Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris 9780156027748
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027748Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
A Venetian Bestiary by Jan Morris 9781908213884
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Of all the cities that the travel writer Jan Morris knew, it was Venice which held a special place in her heart, a place she knew intimately and about which she wrote with great passion and... -
Hong Kong by Jan Morris 9780679776482
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776482Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Europe: An Intimate Journey by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Europe 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... -
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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... -
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Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192820655 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.09King James I once said that if he were not a king he would like to be an Oxford man. "I was a modest, good-humoured boy," Max Beerbohm once wrote, "It is Oxford that has made me insufferable." "Few... -
Jan Morris: A Life Sara Wheeler 9780571379453
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to London, she became the most famous journalist in the world. Morris's work conjured the spirit of... -
Thinking Again: A Diary by Jan Morris 9781631496929
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.25The irrepressible Jan Morris-author of such classics as Venice and Trieste-is at it again: offering a vibrant set of reminiscences that remind us "what a good, wise and witty companion Jan Morris has... -
Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest by Jan Morris 9780306810329
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.77With a fresh eye and inimitable style, the peerless travel and history writer Jan Morris journeys through the life of Abraham Lincoln to sketch an insightful new portrait of America's sixteenth... -
The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.82For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by... -
The Oxford Book of Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192804075
Booksplease Price: £28.91In this entertaining and lively anthology, Jan Morris traces the history of the University from its foundation in the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century, combining extracts from... -
Ciao, Carpaccio!: An infatuation Jan Morris 9781843682288
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19"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... -
The World of Venice by Professor Jan Morris 9780544313262
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544313262Author Professor Jan MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris 9780156983563
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156983563Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris 9780156302869
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156302869Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj by Jan Morris 9780192805966
Booksplease Price: £34.94No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India: the buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted - from the first trading settlement to the end... -
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'So...