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Pax Britannica (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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Heaven's Command (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure',... Læs mere
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Farewell the Trumpets (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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Conundrum (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. On first publication in 1974, the book generated enormous interest around the world, and was chosen by The Times as one of the '100 Key Books of Our Time'.
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Contact!: A Book of Glimpses (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in Manhattan, a lascivious taxi-driver - but she also... Læs mere
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Fisher's Face (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. This book offer an evocation that is both biography and a love letter, an... Læs mere
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Manhattan '45 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris's brisk, affectionate prose.
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Sydney (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... Few writers - a handful of novelists apart - have got so far under the city's skin as Morris .
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Coronation Everest (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers an intimate evocation of the famous of all mountaineering exploits and the old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop.
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Thinking Again (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Necrophilia 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 Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings.
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Allegorizings (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.
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