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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... -
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... -
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: £8.95Hav 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... -
Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192801364
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.45'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... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The 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... -
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... -
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: £10.51Jan 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... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In 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... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Spain 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Coast to Coast by Jan Morris 9780571241774
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Fresh 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 herwords a "period... -
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... -
The Hashemite Kings by Jan Morris 9780571246700
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Heaven's Command by Jan Morris 9780156027748
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Here'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 -
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... -
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 -
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... -
The Oxford Book of Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192804075
Booksplease Price: £30.48In 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... -
Jan Morris: A Life Sara Wheeler 9780571379453
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91'Wonderful.' Paul Theroux'Brilliant.' Simon Jenkins'Superb.' Colin Thubron'Breathtakingly good.' Michael PalinA captivating authorised biography of the legendary writer Jan Morris.She was the... -
Jan Morris: A Life by Sara Wheeler 9780063304116
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £22.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063304116Author Sara WheelerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint -
The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.35For 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... -
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire by Jan Morris 9780156028011
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028011Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint -
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris 9780156302869
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj by Jan Morris 9780192805966
Booksplease Price: £36.55No 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... -
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A Writer's World by Jan Morris 9780571215256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41In 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... -
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... -
The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris 9780156983563
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156983563Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Great Port: A Passage Through New York by Jan Morris 9780571246656
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Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' The Times ... -
My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, My Father's Fortune... -
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Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris 9780140274844 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.68Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and wonderfully... -
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times 'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times When Captain... -
Venice, A Travellers Companion: A Traveller's Reader John Julius Norwich 9781472140302
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ...' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly ...propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back... -
The Hawk and the Hare by Janet Morrison
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777010126Author Janet Love Janet LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 262