Jan Mari Morris

A Writer's House in Wales (National Geographic Directions)

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...

The Best Traveled Man on Earth

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 au...

The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000

"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 o...

Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation

Jan Morris returns to Venice in this loving tribute to one of the great Renaissance masters. In the course of writing Venice, her 1961 classic, Jan Morris became fascinated by the historical presence of a sometimes-overlooked Venetian painter. Nowadays the name of Vittore Carpaccio (1460–1520) sugge...

Hav (New York Review Books Classics)

A New York Review Books OriginalHav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is home to several architectural marvels and an annual roo...

Conundrum (New York Review Books Classics)

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, wit...

The World of Venice: Revised Edition

A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess” (The Observer). Ne...

Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere

Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This 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...

Jan Morris

Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL (born James Albert Humphrey Morris, 2 October 1926) is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax...

Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place

Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon

The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

Travels

The World of Venice

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress

Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress