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Authors: Jan Morris
A Writer's World (66 page)
- Wagner, Richard,
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2 - Waldheim, Kurt,
1 - Wales,
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2
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4 - Walpole, Horace,
1 - Warsaw,
1 - Washington Square, New York,
1 - Water St, St John’s,
1 - Watts Towers, Los Angeles,
1 - Waugh, Evelyn,
1 - Weggis,
1 - Weimar,
1 - Weimar, Carl August, Duke of,
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2 - Wells,
1 - Wells Cathedral,
1 - Wells Cathedral School,
1 - Wenner, Jann,
1 - West Point,
1 - West Side Highway, New York,
1 - Westminster Abbey, London,
1 - Wiesenthal, Simon,
1 - wildlife, Sri Lanka,
1 - Willy Brandt-Platz, Leipzig,
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2 - Windamere Hotel, Darjeeling,
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2 - wine,
1 - Winter Palace, St Petersburg,
1 - Wolf, Hugo,
1 - Wordsworth, William,
1 - World Trade Center, New York,
1 - Wright, Frank Lloyd,
1 - Writers’ Union, Bucharest,
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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.
This ebook edition published in 2010
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
All rights reserved
© Jan Morris, 2003
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All pictures reproduced by kind permission of Magnum Photos:
1950s – Egypt, Cairo © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
1960s – Moscow, Saint-Basile © Burt Glinn / Magnum Photos
1970s – India, Delhi © John Vink / Magnum Photos
1980s – Germany, Berlin © Guy Le Querrec / Magnum Photos
1990s – Austria, Sydney © Trent Parke / Magnum Photos
Also, thanks to Sickle Moon Books for permission to reproduce the essay on Oman and Viking Press for the essay on Romania.
ISBN 978–0–571–26601–2