The World
Life and Travel 1950-2000
Published on 8. September 2014
480 pages
978-0-393-24730-5 (ISBN)
Description
"The travel book of the season."—Craig Seligman, New York Times Book Review
The 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 cultures from Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles fifty years of Morris's finest travel writing. With eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successful ascent of Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the handover of Hong Kong, The World promises to create an entirely new generation of Jan Morris readers. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2003.More details
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Jan Morris (1926-2020) lived and wrote as James Morris until 1972. She resided with her partner, Elizabeth Morris, in northwest Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her many books included In My Mind's Eye, Coronation Everest, and the Pax Britannica trilogy.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Prologue: Is that the Truth?
- The 1950s
- 1 Everest 1953
- 2 A Benign Republic: USA
- Manhattan
- The South
- Chicago
- The Rocket
- 3 Kingdom of Troubles: The Middle East
- Egypt
- Lebanon
- Jordan
- Jerusalem
- Iran
- Oman
- The Suez Affair
- Baghdad
- Israel
- 4 South African White and Black
- 5 Confusions in Paradise: The Caribbean
- Trinidad
- Barbados
- Cuba
- 6 Europe: After the War was Over
- Berlin
- Paris
- London
- Two Grandees
- 7 Orientalisms: The Far East
- Japan
- Hong Kong
- 8 Venice 1959
- The 1960s
- 9 The Eichmann Trial
- 10 The Cold War
- The UN
- Moscow
- Leningrad
- Odessa
- Czechoslovakia
- Poland
- The Sixth Fleet
- Helsinki
- Trieste
- 11 South American Frissons
- La Paz
- Lima
- Cuzco
- 12 Oxford 1965
- 13 Australia
- Darwin
- Sydney
- Alice Springs
- 14 A New Africa
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Ethiopia
- 15 Manhattan 1969
- The 1970s
- 16 Pleasure Places
- Kashmir
- Trouville
- 17 Ex-Britannica
- Singapore
- Ceylon
- Darjeeling
- Delhi
- 18 Casablanca: A Change of Sex
- 19 London 1975
- 20 Post-Glory: The USA
- Los Angeles
- Manhattan
- 21 South African Black and White
- The 1980s
- 22 On Wistful Whims: Virtual Places
- Wells
- San Francisco
- Rio de Janeiro
- 23 Sydney 1983
- 24 O Canada!
- Ottawa
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- St John's
- 25 There Stood China
- 26 Vienna 1983
- 27 Y Wladfa: Another Wales
- 28 Berlin 1989
- The 1990s
- 29 The Flux of Europe
- Vineyards
- Switzerland
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Bosnia
- Lithuania
- Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Albania
- Ireland
- 30 Light and Shade in the USA
- Portland, Oregon
- On the Zephyr
- West Point
- Manhattan
- 31 Sydney 1995
- 32 Hong Kong: The End
- Epilogue: Fulfilling a Long-Needed Want
- Index
- Praise for Jan Morris and The World
- About the Author
- Copyright
