New Statesman - <![CDATA[Jan Morris]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/jan_morris en <![CDATA[Unsung hero of the revolution. In 1848, after decades of foreign occupation, Venice rose up against its oppressors. The revolt was led not by a dashing general or aristocratic poet, but by a spectacle-wearing middle-class lawyer. By Jan Morris]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200508220036 http://www.newstatesman.com/200508220036 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris The Siege of Venice Jonathan Keates Chatto & Windus, 495pp, £20 ISBN 0701166371

]]> <![CDATA[Beyond the fringe]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200501010059 http://www.newstatesman.com/200501010059 Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris The Last of the Celts Marcus Tanner Yale University Press, 398pp, £25 ISBN 0300104642

]]> <![CDATA[Heavens above]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200408160030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200408160030 Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris The Book Nobody Read Owen Gingerich, William Heinemann, 306pp, £12.99 ISBN 0802714153

]]> <![CDATA[The president steps down]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403150037 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403150037 Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris Radio - Jan Morris has been waiting 40 years for Alistair Cooke to do the decent thing

]]> <![CDATA[The flower of New Amsterdam. What made New York the vibrant, liberal place it is today - and the epitome of western arrogance and greed? It wasn't the English influence but the city's brief, often overlooked period as a Dutch colony that gave Manhattan its eclectic soul]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403080038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403080038 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris The Island at the Centre of the World: the untold story of Dutch Manhattan and the founding of New York Russell Shorto Doubleday, 432pp, £18.99 ISBN 038560324X

]]> <![CDATA[Titanic scale]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200401120043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200401120043 Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris Castles of Steel Robert K Massie Jonathan Cape, 884pp, £25 ISBN 0679456716

]]> <![CDATA[A dream place]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200311100038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200311100038 Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris At Home in Australia Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, 256pp, £24.95 ISBN 0500511411

]]> <![CDATA[A beast, an angel and a madman]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200310200044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200310200044 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris Dylan Thomas: a new life Andrew Lycett Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 434pp, £20 ISBN 0297607936

]]> <![CDATA[The big picture]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200308180032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200308180032 Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris The Americas: the history of a hemisphere Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 235pp, £12.99 ISBN 1842127136

]]> <![CDATA[City of hope]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200307070040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200307070040 Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT Jan Morris The Birth of Sydney: the story of Britain's arrival in the Antipodes Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery William Heinemann, 349pp, £20 ISBN 0434008761

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