Heaven'S Command
Published on 3. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-571-19466-7 (ISBN)
Description
The first volume of Jan Morris's brilliant triptych depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire. In a series of episodes, descriptive passages, character studies and evocations the book tells the story of the Empire from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.With a new introduction by the author.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 125 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-571-19466-7 (9780571194667)
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Person
Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer's World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003. Hav, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006.