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Trieste and the Meaning of NowhereOne hundred years ago, Trieste was the chief seaport of the entire Austro-Hungarian empire, but today many people have no idea where it is. This...Read More
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ArticlesBase, April 19, 2012
...—Rick Steves "Travel With Rick Steves" "Zazz Schlutzkey' name may not be as familiar as Paul Theroux or Jan Morris, but he's as skilled a travel writer as anyone out there." —New Orleans Times-Picayune "It's [a] turn-on-a-dime ability to mix gonzo...
Red Online, April 2, 2012
...train La Trochita – as it winds its way through the mountains. Like Paul Theroux or Bruce Chatwin, Jan Morris could have popped up about half a dozen times in any pick of the best travel books. Venice, though, as she says herself, is not a travel...
British Library, March 29, 2012
...Lee, Ella Maillart, Eric Newby, Sacheverell Sitwell, Freya Stark, Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Rosita Forbes and Jan Morris. Laurens van der Post is heard in a live recording made at the Royal Geographical Society making an impassioned plea on...
Travel Pulse, March 15, 2012
...named it?) led me to The Strand Bookstore in New York.Its computer promised me a copy of Jan Morris' “The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country.” The bookstore clerk first informed me a computer error had generated what he called a...
Irish Independent, March 4, 2012
...bit as much as John, Paul, George and Ringo, set it in motion. As the esteemed travel writer Jan Morris wrote later that year: "England was an aristocracy gone to seed, exhausted by war and responsibility, and very nearly tired of life. It was the Angry...
Guardian.co.uk, March 1, 2012
...sorts of interesting releases relating to Durrell, including a new edition of the Quartet with an introduction by Jan Morris , a Lawrence Durrell spoken-word CD from the British Library, and Joanna Hodgkin's excellent Amateurs In Eden , a recounting the...
The Scotsman, February 24, 2012
...40 titles take a bow in 44 pages, with a last hurrah that vaunts Paul Theroux and digs Jan Morris in the ribs. Without missing a beat, Whitfield grasps the slick essentials of the contemporary scene, with its mounting emphasis on the personal, the...
Oregonian, March 2, 2012
...visitors to Newfoundland arrive in St. John's, a vibrant city of 100,000 that British travel writer Jan Morris described as "the most entertaining town in North America." It is also one of the oldest. Since 1497, when explorer John Cabot landed here, a...
Mail Online UK, March 1, 2012
...of this cartoon propaganda. And I can always re-read a genuinely enlightening work about the Raj, such as Jan Morris's incomparable trilogy. May be Mr Paxman, cowed like those poor dupes in 1897, was merely issuing a coded cry for help, hoping that a...
Guardian.co.uk, March 1, 2012
...sorts of interesting releases relating to Durrell, including a new edition of the Quartet with an introduction by Jan Morris , a Lawrence Durrell spoken-word CD from the British Library, and Joanna Hodgkin's excellent Amateurs In Eden , a recounting the...
Mail Online UK, February 28, 2012
...of this cartoon propaganda. And I can always re-read a genuinely enlightening work about the Raj, such as Jan Morris's incomparable trilogy. May be Mr Paxman, cowed like those poor dupes in 1897, was merely issuing a coded cry for help, hoping that a...
Mail Online UK, February 28, 2012
...of this cartoon propaganda. And I can always re-read a genuinely enlightening work about the Raj, such as Jan Morris's incomparable trilogy. May be Mr Paxman, cowed like those poor dupes in 1897, was merely issuing a coded cry for help, hoping that a...
The Scotsman, February 24, 2012
...40 titles take a bow in 44 pages, with a last hurrah that vaunts Paul Theroux and digs Jan Morris in the ribs. Without missing a beat, Whitfield grasps the slick essentials of the contemporary scene, with its mounting emphasis on the personal, the...
Guardian.co.uk, February 24, 2012
...lingers in the mind long after its labyrinthine plots (for they are myriad, and muddling) have been forgotten. Jan Morris guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Terms & Conditions |...
