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Conundrum by Jan Morris
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is "the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex" (Newsweek). "A profoundly poetic story." --The New York Times"An exquisite read." --Maria Popova, The MarginalianThe great trav ...Show more
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom
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 dissoluti ...Show more
Fifty Years of Europe - An Album by Jan Morris
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good- very good
Ranging from the evocations of megalithic religion to sensations of barge travel on the Rhine, from the gloom of Warsaw during the Cold War to the weird euphoria of Albania in the 1990s, this collection of reflections and observations presents a panoramic and idiosyncratic impression of Europe in a peri ...Show more
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress Volume 1 by Jan Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
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 plan ...Show more
Sydney by Jan Morris
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.' Sydney takes us on the city's journey from penal colony to world-class metropolis, as lively and charming as ...Show more
The Venetian Empire - A Sea Voyage by Jan Morris
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
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