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Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about "romantic re-visits" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal.
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Jan Morris, hailed by Rebecca West as 'perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times', and by Alastair Cooke as the 'Flaubert of the jet age', is the author of numerous best-selling works on places, travel, and history.
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"Vastly memorable essays prove Morris a first-rate travel writer and a master of lucid, evocative prose."--Booklist
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0195036069
- ISBN 13 9780195036060
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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