Venice
By (Author) Jan Morris
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
7th October 2004
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
914.53104929
Paperback
336
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
240g
The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city.
Jan Morris was born in Somerset in 1926 and received her B.A. in 1951 and her M.A. in 1961, both from Christ Church, Oxford. 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 Britanica trilogy about the British Empire, two autobiographical books, six volumes of collected travel essays and a novel.