Jan Morris

This remarkable memoir is the classic account of the transgender journey. It is all the more extraordinary because it is the life story of a figure who, it seemed, seamlessly and publicly charted a course through the English establishment - James Morris, outstanding journalist, historian and travel writer, famed for a peerless writing style. But all the while he was concealing a very different inner world: from the age of four he felt that, despite...

Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and cattle of a working Welsh farm. She regards this modest...

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.

Une tournée historique du sultan aux confins du grand désert d'Arabie. En 1955, les vents du changement commençaient à souffler sur les montagnes et déserts du sultanat d'Oman. Les effluves troublants du pétrole promettaient de bouleverser cet État encore médiéval. Les rumeurs de révolte se mélaient aux intrigues de puissances étrangères. Pour le sultan, il était temps d'agir. Appuyé par les Britanniques, à l'époque encore influents,...

Un portrait délicat de la cité de l'Adriatique, carrefour séculaire des tumultes de l'histoire européenne. L'écrivain britannique Jan Morris a découvert Trieste comme soldat en 1945, et cette ville n'a cessé depuis de la hanter. Maintes fois bousculée par les remous de l'histoire, Trieste incarne la précarité des frontières, la finitude des empires et s'est affirmée depuis des siècles comme un havre pour les exilés, célèbres ou anonymes....

A snapshot of the Empire at the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. It looks at what made up the Empire, from adventurers and politicians to communications and infrastructure, as well as anomalies and eccentricities. This humane overview also examines the muddle of jumbled ideologies behind it, and how they affected its 370 million people.