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

Pengiun

No one, since the days of the great Arab travelers, has described so much of the known world as Jan Morris. Considered by many the preeminent travel writer of our age, she now offers this retrospective selection of her best writings. Including 37 pieces, several of which have never appeared in book form before, these essays cover Morris' entire career from the 1950s to the present, spanning the globe from China to Peru, from Beirut to Houston, and from Leningrad to Manhattan. Writing with elegance, passion, and wit, she captures the complex personality of each city, whether familiar or exotic. In the Preface, she clarifies her purpose: "First to last, the world never ceased to astonish me, and I hope at least a little of that power to amaze, if nothing more profound, may be found between the covers of this book."

Among the Cities

Penguin

Matter Of Wales: Epic Views Of A Small Country

Penguin Uk

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

Asia

Vintage Books

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

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

There is no corner of India that does not contain some relic of the British presence, whether it is as grand as a palace or as modest as a pillar box. Jan Morris revisited the buildings of British India for this book which tells about the nature of imperialism and its architecture.

Stones of Empire

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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O Canada!: Travels in an Unknown Country

Spain

Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place (DESTINATIONS)

Spain

Among the Cities

Matter Of Wales: Epic Views Of A Small Country

Hong Kong: Epilogue To An Empire

The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire

Stones of Empire