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  • The Best Traveled Man on Earth

    by Jan Morris ...
    Six centuries ago, the Islamic world was the pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the twelfth-century diaries of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who spent thirty years journeying some 73,000 miles. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed writer and bestselling author Jan Morris, in the little-known story of perhaps the greatest traveler of all time. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heaven's Command

    by Jan Morris ...
    Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces the impact of empire on places as diverse as Sierra Leone and Fiji, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

    by Jan Morris ...
    One 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 fascinating Italian city on the Adriatic, bordering the former Yugoslavia, has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and melancholy. She has chosen it as the subject of this, her final work, because it was the first city she knew as an adult -- ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Sultan in Oman

    by Jan Morris ...
    In 1955 the winds of change were beginning to blow across the Sultanate of Oman, a hitherto truly medieval state. Rumours of subversion mingled with the unsettling smell of oil to propel the Sultan on a royal progress across the desert hinterland, from his southern capital of Salala to the northern capital of Muscat. It was an historic journey – the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar. ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World

    Life and Travel 1950-2000

    by Jan Morris ...
    "The travel book of the season."—Craig Seligman, New York Times Book ReviewThe first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Venice

    by Jan Morris ...
    'The best book about Venice ever written' ( Sunday Times) - Jan Morris' bestselling travel writing classic is an essential guide to this magical city, newly introduced by Tracy Chevalier.Whether the dappled secrets of the city's canals, churches, calles and campos, to the romantic tales behind its revered landmarks, paintings, scultpures and mosaics - the myths and history of the Venetian people ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Pax Britannica

    by Jan Morris ...
    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. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions and tastes, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Allegorizings

    by Jan Morris ...
    New York Times Book Review • Editors' ChoiceJan Morris delivers her final volume, brimming with reminiscences, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana.Not so long ago, feeling intimations of mortality, Jan Morris embarked on a wholly novel literary enterprise. What began as a series of high-minded letters to her late daughter—in the ... Read more

    $25.79 CAD

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    Venice

    by Jan Morris ...
    Narrated by Sebastian Comberti ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 16 min

    Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her ‘the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands’. Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness. So Jan Morris remarks, with graceful literary distinction, on the ... Read more

    $24.05 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Hong Kong

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Farewell the Trumpets

    by Jan Morris ...
    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. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissolution of the British Empire.The Pax Britannica Trilogy includes Heaven's Command: An Imperial ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Trieste And Meaning Of Nowhere

    by Jan Morris ...
    A book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste.This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD