Jan Morris
Articles by jan morris
Results 1 to 10 of 27
Books
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
- 22 August 2005
The Siege of Venice
Jonathan Keates Chatto & Windus, 495pp, £20
ISBN 0701166371
Books
Beyond the fringe
- 01 January 2005
The Last of the Celts
Marcus Tanner Yale University Press, 398pp, £25
ISBN 0300104642
Books
Heavens above
- 16 August 2004
The Book Nobody Read
Owen Gingerich, William Heinemann, 306pp, £12.99
ISBN 0802714153
Radio
The president steps down
- 15 March 2004
Radio - Jan Morris has been waiting 40 years for Alistair Cooke to do the decent thing
World Affairs
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
- 08 March 2004
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
Books
Titanic scale
- 12 January 2004
Castles of Steel
Robert K Massie Jonathan Cape, 884pp, £25
ISBN 0679456716
World Affairs
A dream place
- 10 November 2003
At Home in Australia
Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, 256pp, £24.95
ISBN 0500511411
Poetry
A beast, an angel and a madman
- 20 October 2003
Dylan Thomas: a new life
Andrew Lycett Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 434pp, £20
ISBN 0297607936
North America
The big picture
- 18 August 2003
The Americas: the history of a hemisphere
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 235pp, £12.99
ISBN 1842127136
World Affairs
City of hope
- 07 July 2003
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
