Sydney

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Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of cities the British Empire created . but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.'

Author Bio

Jan Morris was born in Somerset in 1926. Dubbed the 'Flaubert of the jet age' by Alistair Cooke, and 'perhaps the best descriptive writer of our time' by Rebecca West, Jan Morris has written studies of Venice, Oxford, Manhattan, Sydney, Hong Kong, Spain and Wales. She is the author of the Pax Brittanica trilogy about the British Empire, two autobiographical books, six volumes of collected travel essays and a novel.