Jan Morris (1926–2020)

Autore di Pax Britannica: l'apogeo di un impero (807)

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Sull'Autore

Jan Morris served as an intelligence officer with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, studied at Oxford University, and was a reporter for the Times and the Guardian before launching a successful career as a novelist, history author, and travel writer

Comprende i nomi: Jan Morris, Jan Morris, Jan Morris, by Jan Morris, Ed. Jan Morris, Edited and Introduced By Jan Morris

Comprende anche: James Morris (1)

Fonte dell'immagine: LGBT History Month

Serie

Pax Britannica Trilogy

Opere di Jan Morris

Popolari Recenti

Pax Britannica: l'apogeo di un impero (807) (1968) 599 copie

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (1973) 565 copie

Conundrum (1974) 545 copie

Trieste o del nessun luogo (2001) 534 copie

Venice (1960) 524 copie

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (1978) 471 copie

Hav (2006) 414 copie

Sotto il segno di san Marco (1980) 343 copie

The World: Travels 1950-2000 (2003) 342 copie

Hong Kong (1676) 314 copie

Oxford (1965) 311 copie

Europa dal Cielo (1991) 259 copie

The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country (1982) 252 copie

The Pax Britannica Trilogy (1968) 235 copie

Manhattan '45 (1987) 229 copie

Spain (1979) 224 copie

A Writer's House in Wales (2002) 213 copie

The World of Venice (1960) 197 copie

Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997) 181 copie

Last Letters from Hav (1985) 172 copie

Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone (1980) 150 copie

Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (1999) 149 copie

Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989) 147 copie

The Oxford Book of Oxford (1978) — Compiler & Editor — 137 copie

Journeys (1984) 112 copie

Among the Cities (1985) 110 copie

Sydney (1992) 104 copie

Fisher's Face (1995) 101 copie

From the Four Corners (1995) 100 copie

In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary (2018) 92 copie

Coronation Everest (1958) 89 copie

Travels with Virginia Woolf (1905) — A cura di — 89 copie

A Venetian Bestiary (1982) 76 copie

Coast to Coast (1956) 71 copie

Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj (1983) 71 copie

Contact!: A Book of Glimpses (1623) 65 copie

The spectacle of empire: Style, effect and the Pax Britannica (1982) 65 copie

Sultan in Oman (1957) 60 copie

Locations (1992) 56 copie

Turner and Venice [cat. exp., London, Tate Britain, 9 Oct. 2003-11 Jan. 2004, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 15 Feb-30… (2003) 55 copie

Allegorizings (2021) 49 copie

Scenes from Havian Life (1996) 48 copie

Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation (2014) 47 copie

O Canada!: Travels in an Unknown Country (1992) 47 copie

The Great Port: A Passage Through New York (1969) 44 copie

The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (1963) 41 copie

Scotland: The Place of Visions (1986) 34 copie

Thinking Again (2020) 32 copie

Ireland: Your Only Place (1990) 30 copie

The Preachers (1973) 29 copie

A Machynlleth Triad (Penguin Fiction) (1993) 29 copie

Wales: The First Place (1982) 28 copie

Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony (2018) 26 copie

Places (1972) 21 copie

Wales from the Air (1990) 18 copie

Riding the Skies (1989) 14 copie

Persia (1969) 14 copie

The presence of Spain (1964) 13 copie

The Hashemite Kings (1959) 12 copie

Cities (1963) 12 copie

City to City (1990) 11 copie

Portmeirion (2006) 9 copie

South African Winter (1958) 9 copie

Travels (1976) 9 copie

Our First Leader (2000) 8 copie

HONG KONG: RETURN TO THE HEART OF THE DRAGON. (1993) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

The Market of Seleukia (1957) 7 copie

The Best Traveled Man on Earth (2014) 6 copie

Christ Church Oxford: A Brief History and Guide (2011) 6 copie

Venice: New and revised Edition 5 copie

Islam inflamed; a Middle East picture (1957) 4 copie

The Bedside Guardian 11 (1959) 4 copie

The world of Venice 3 copie

Hav 3 copie

The upstairs donkey and other stolen stories 3 copie

Building Hong Kong (1705) 3 copie

My Favourite Stories of Wales (1980) 3 copie

The Princeship of Wales (1995) 2 copie

Venice 2 copie

Enigma (2022) 2 copie

Venice: New and revised Edition 1 copia

Pax Britanica, 3-volume set 1 copia

In Times of Great Chaos (1989) 1 copia

Presencia de España (1984) 1 copia

Heaven's Command hd 1 1 copia

Search for A Writer's House in Wales 1 copia

Five Approaches of Literary Criticism 1 copia

Perchance to Pick One's Nose (in Granta: Jubilee - JACK) 1 copia

A View of the Royal Navy 1 copia

Esplora le opere

Opere correlate

Justine (1957) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 2,764 copie

Tempo di regali: a piedi fino a Costantinopoli: da Hoek Van Holland al medio Danubio (1977) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 2,438 copie

Il quartetto di Alessandria (1957) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 2,125 copie

Balthazar (1958) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,578 copie

Mountolive (1958) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,501 copie

Clea (1960) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,499 copie

Fra i boschi e l'acqua: a piedi fino a Costantinopoli: dal medio Danubio alle porte di ferro (1986) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,486 copie

The Towers of Trebizond (1956) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,264 copie

Eothen (1844) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 460 copie

The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Collaboratore — 255 copie

Bad Trips (1991) — Collaboratore — 233 copie

Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee (1997) — Collaboratore — 202 copie

Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (2004) — Collaboratore — 201 copie

The Kindness of Strangers (2003) — Autore — 200 copie

The Stones of Venice [Folio Society abridged edition] (1981) — A cura di — 192 copie

The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Collaboratore — 187 copie

Era meglio se stavo a casa! : i grandi scrittori raccontanoi loro peggiori viaggi (1994) — Introduzione — 177 copie

This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Collaboratore — 160 copie

Harry's Bar Cookbook (1991) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 148 copie

By the Seat of My Pants (2005) — Collaboratore — 145 copie

Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (2007) — Collaboratore — 136 copie

The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory (1730) — Collaboratore — 124 copie

Travelers' Tales ITALY : True Stories (1998) — Introduzione — 114 copie

The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Collaboratore — 110 copie

Our World's Heritage (1987) 94 copie

Granta 10: Travel Writing (1984) — Collaboratore — 88 copie

The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Collaboratore — 82 copie

Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (2011) — Collaboratore — 57 copie

100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred, Inspiring, Mysterious, Enlightening (2010) — Collaboratore — 56 copie

Japan: Photographs 1854-1905 (1979) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 41 copie

Princess September (1939) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 35 copie

Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Collaboratore — 34 copie

Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris (2016) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni — 32 copie

Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There (Destinations) (1990) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 22 copie

Women on Nature (2021) — Collaboratore — 21 copie

Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1993 (1993) — Author "Fisher's Face" and "The Battle of Fatshan Creek" — 17 copie

Penguins 60s Classics (Loose as the Wind; Now Remember; Florence Nightingale; Rumpole and the Younger Generation;… (1996) — Collaboratore — 12 copie

Images of Egypt (1989) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 12 copie

Adventures in Japan: A Literary Journey in the Footsteps of a Victorian Lady (2000) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 10 copie

Great Interviews of the 20th Century: Fidel Castro by Herbert Matthews 1957 (2007) — Collaboratore — 4 copie

Barcelona: A Book of Photographs (1966) — Introduzione — 3 copie

O'r pedwar gwynt, Gwanwyn 2020 (2020) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Letters from a designer's notebook (1993) — Prefazione — 1 copia

O'r pedwar gwynt, Gaeaf 2019 (2019) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

O'r pedwar gwynt, Haf 2019 (2019) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

O'r pedwar gwynt, Gaeaf 2018 (2018) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Arcade, no. 28 (1981) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

The Reader's Digest Great Books For Today: 1980 Edition: Volume 001 📚 [ANTHOLOGY] (PUBLISHER'S SERIES: READER'S… 1 copia

O'r pedwar gwynt, Gwanwyn 2019 (2019) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Etichette

Alessandria d'Egitto (238) Alexandria Quartet (211) Antologia (130) Architettura (89) Autobiografia (167) Biografia (213) britannico (242) da leggere (1,064) Egitto (470) Europa (396) Folio Society (501) Galles (139) Gran Bretagna (123) Impero britannico (220) India (93) Inghilterra (154) Inglese (140) Italia (358) Jan Morris (158) Letteratura (444) letteratura britannica (252) Letteratura inglese (324) letto (131) Medio Oriente (106) Memorie (429) Narrativa (2,007) non letto (133) Novecento (352) NYRB (146) Reportage di viaggio (291) Romanzo (551) saggi (193) Saggistica (978) Storia (1,169) storia britannica (138) Turchia (126) Venezia (318) Viaggio (2,639) walking (90) XIX secolo (114)

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Morris, Jan
Altri nomi: Morris, James Humphrey (birth name)
Data di nascita: 1926-10-02
Data di morte: 2020-11-20
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: UK
Luogo di nascita: Clevedon, Somerset, England, UK
Luogo di morte: Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Luogo di residenza: Somerset, England, UK
Llanystumdwy, Wales
Fforest, Monmouthshire, Wales
Istruzione: Lancing College
University of Oxford (Christ Church)
Attività lavorative: journalist
travel writer
historian
Relazioni: Morys, Twm (son)
Tuckniss, Elizabeth (wife, partner)
Morris, Mark (son)
Premi e riconoscimenti: Royal Society of Literature (Fellow|1961)
Gorsedd y Beirdd (1992)
Glyndŵr Award (1996)
Order of the British Empire (Commander|1999)
Golden PEN Award (2005)

Utenti

Discussioni

British Author Challenge May 2023: Jan Morris & R.F. Delderfield in 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Giugno 2023)

Recensioni

La casa de una escritora en Gales: 85 (Narrativas) di Jan Morris

EN COTIZACIÓN

Segnalato

Visitas | 11 altre recensioni | Feb 26, 2024 |

Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere di Jan Morris

Magical. Vintage Jan Morris: many strands, of history, politics, art, architecture, literature, finely woven in the end. The nowhere place comes alive in all its nowhereness! Loved reading this little gem while in the place. Highly recommended.

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fmclellan | 12 altre recensioni | Jan 23, 2024 |

Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone di Jan Morris

Places in the 1970s: Washington, DC, Delhi, Panama, Los Angeles, South Africa, London, Cairo, Istanbul, Trieste, Manhattan

Segnalato

betty_s | 2 altre recensioni | Oct 1, 2023 |

Conundrum (New York Review Books Classics) di Jan Morris

L ratio proto-transmedicalist agent of british imperialism so fucking racist i know this is a somewhat important book in trans historical context but it made me so mad

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frailandfreakish | 11 altre recensioni | Sep 30, 2023 |

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