Coast to Coast (34 page)
Authors: Jan Morris
- Waikiki,
1
,
2
–3 - Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, N.Y.,
1
,
2 - Wall
Street
Journal
,
1 - War of 1812,
1 - War, Civil,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5 - War, Revolutionary,
1 - Washington,
1
–5,
2
,
3
,
190 - Washington, D.C.,
1
,
2 - Washington, George,
1 - White, William Allen,
1 - White
Gold
,
1
–
2 - White River,
1 - Whitney, Mt.,
1
,
2 - Whymper, Edward,
1 - Williams, Tennessee,
1 - Wilson, Woodrow,
1 - Window Rock, N.M.,
1 - Wisconsin,
1
,
2
–22,
3
–2 - Wisconsin, University of,
1 - Wright, Frank Lloyd,
1
–10 - Wyoming,
1
,
2
,
3
- Zuber, Willie,
1
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‘One of the very best impressions of contemporary America I have ever read.’ Denis Brogan,
Saturday
Review
‘The spirited writing, permeated with a sense of excitement and discovery, makes it a delight to read. The prose sparkles, and everything the author tells glitters and coruscates.’
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Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea.
Her books include
Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy
(
Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica,
and
Farewell the Trumpets
), and
Conundrum
. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer’s World
, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003.
Hav
, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006.
HEAVEN’S COMMAND: AN IMPERIAL PROGRESS
PAX BRITANNICA: THE CLIMAX OF AN EMPIRE
FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS: AN IMPERIAL RETREAT
CORONATION EVEREST
VENICE
CONUNDRUM
TRIESTE AND THE MEANING OF NOWHERE
A WRITER’S WORLD
EUROPE: AN INTIMATE JOURNEY
HAV
FISHER’S FACE
A VENETIAN BESTIARY
SPAIN
AMONG THE CITIES
THE GREAT PORT
THE HASHEMITE KINGS
HONG KONG
LINCOLN
MANHATTEN
’45
THE MARKET OF SELEUKIA
SOUTH AFRICAN WINTER
THE SPECTACLE OF EMPIRE
SYDNEY
TRAVELS
A VENETIAN EMPIRE
First published in 2010
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