Profiles ten Canadian cities, each one representing a different aspect of Canada's landscape and people, and presents assessments and observations of their sights, sounds, smells, and citizens

O Canada!: Travels in an Unknown Country

Travel

MORRIS, JAN

Canada

Harpercollins

Spain

Morris remains sensitive to Spanish life and landscape while accurately recording both the subtle and the radical, social and political changes that have occured

History

Europe

Simon&Schuster

The author recounts her experiences living in Turkey for three years, and shares her observations on Turkish history, people, and culture

Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place (DESTINATIONS)

Settle, Mary Lee

Prentice Hall Direct

Penguin

Describes a city of the mind--Hav, a dying city with a fashionable old Russian colony, home to the troglodytic Kretevs, the site of the astonishing Roof Race, and the haven of literary visitors from Marco Polo to Freud

Last Letters from Hav

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Matter Of Wales: Epic Views Of A Small Country

Penguin Uk

For 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 which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. It is a traveller's book, geographically arranged but wandering at will from the past to the present, evoking not only contemporary landscapes and sensations but also the characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian 'Stato da Mar', it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.

The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

Penguin??Books

Let loose in a town whose first citizens were British criminals, a world-renowned travel writer shows how Sydney has grown into a beguiling, vibrant city full of promise.

Sydney

Australia & Oceania

First published in 1988, Hong Kong is a portrait of the British Empire's last, most anachronistic outpost, as the countdown to the handover gathers momentum. Written with her trademark elegance and panache, Morris depicts a city tragically suspended between a colonial past and the uncertainties of China's future.  'It is difficult to think of anyone who could recount this tale with such authority, elegance and sensitivity as Jan Morris ... Here, she portrays what has always been Britain's most adjective-defying colony ... Morris so clearly likes the place, but she is not sentimental, nor is she blind to Hong Kong's flaws; she is aware of rootlessness in the teeming energy.' TLS  'The book captures the contradictions and mad terror of Hong Kong better than could a novel - it's a dramatic documentary ... ' Evening Standard  'The definitive study.' Washington Post

Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire

Asia

Explores the city's history, its blend of Eastern and Western traditions, and its hopes for the future as Hong Kong prepares to become a part of the People's Republic of China

Hong Kong. Epilogue to an Empire

Vintage Books

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O Canada!: Travels in an Unknown Country

Spain

Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place (DESTINATIONS)

Spain

Last Letters from Hav

Matter Of Wales: Epic Views Of A Small Country

The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

Sydney

Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire

Hong Kong. Epilogue to an Empire