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Authors: Jan Morris

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  • Uganda,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n.,
    5
  • Uitlanders,
    1
    n.,
    2
    and n.,
    3
    n.
  • Ulster, Ireland,
    1
  • Union
    Jack,
    The
    ,
    1
  • Union Steamship Co.,
    1
  • United Empire Trade League,
    1
  • United States,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
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    ,
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    • buildings of,
      1
    • and Canada,
      1
      ,
      2
    • challenges from,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • federation in,
      1
    • Irish in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • migration to,
      1
    • navy of,
      1
    • trade of,
      1
  • Utterson, Canada,
    1
  • Van Neikerk, Captain,
    1
  • Vanity
    Fair
    ,
    1
  • Venezuela,
    1
  • Venice, Italy,
    1
  • Vibhaji, Ranjitsinjhi,
    1
  • Viceroy’s Cup race,
    1
  • Victoria, Queen of England,
    1
    ,
    2
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    3
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    ,
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    ,
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    • on British Empire,
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      ,
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      ,
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      ,
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      ,
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      ,
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      ,
      7
    • and Canada,
      1
    • Disraeli and,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Empress of India,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      n., 
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      ,
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      ,
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      ,
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    • Gladstone and,
      1
      n.,
      2
    • Indian art, admirer of,
      1
    • and Ireland,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Jubilee of,
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      ,
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      ,
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    • Jubilee message of,
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      ,
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    • Jubilee procession,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      and n.
    • places named after,
      1
    • Queen-Empress,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      n.,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
    • and religion,
      1
      ,
      2
    • stamps of,
      1
      and n.,
      2
    • statues of,
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      n.,
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      ,
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      n.,
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      ,
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    • and subjects,
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      ,
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  • Victoria, Australia,
    1
  • Victoria, Canada,
    1
    and n.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum,
  • London,
    1
  • Victoria Falls, Africa,
    1
    ,
    2
    and n.
  • Vienna, Austria,
    1
  • Vienna Café, Melbourne,
    1
  • Villeneuve, Admiral Pierre,
    1
  • Vincent, Sir Howard,
    1
    and n.,
    2
  • Vonolel (horse),
    1
    and n.,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Waghorn, Thomas,
    1
    and n.
  • Wakefield, Edward Gibbon,
    1
    and n.,
    2
  • Waltzing
    Matilda
    (A. B. Paterson),
    1
    and n.
  • War Office,
    1
  • Watson, William,
    1
  • Webb, Sidney,
    1
    and n.
  • Webb, Mrs Sidney (Beatrice),
    1
  • Weeden, Sergeant Major,
    1
  • Wellesley, Lord,
    1
  • Wellington, Duke of,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n.
  • Wellington, New Zealand,
    1
  • Wells, David A.,
    1
  • Wells, H.G.,
    1
    and n.
  • Westmacott, Richard,
    1
  • White Pass, Canada,
    1
    and n.
  • Wilberforce, William,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Wilde, Oscar,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Wilkins, Captain H. St Clair,
    1
  • William II, Kaiser,
    1
    n.,
    2
  • Wills, W. J.,
    1
    ,
    2
    and n.
  • Wilson, Major Allan,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n.,
    4
  • Wilson, Sir Arnold,
    1
    and n.
  • Wilson, Admiral Arthur,
    1
    ,
    2
    n..
  • Wilson, John,
    1
  • Windsor Hotel, Melbourne,
    1
    n.
  • Windward Islands,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Witu. Sultanate of,
    1
  • Wolfe, General James,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n.
  • Wolseley, Field-Marshal Lord,
    1
    , and n.,
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    and n.
  • Women’s Health Protective Association, Brooklyn,
    1
  • Woodward, Benjamin,
    1
  • Yeats, William,
    1
  • Yellow
    Book,
    The,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Young, ‘Bobo’,
    1
    and n.
  • Young, G. M.,
    1
  • Younghusband, Francis,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Yukon,
    1
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    2
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    3
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  • Yule, Sir Henry,
    1
    and n.
  • Zanzibar,
    1
    ,
    2
    • abolition of slavery,
      1
    • and Diamond Jubilee,
      1
  • Zomba, Nyasaland,
    1
    ,
    2
    n.
  • Zulus,
    1
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    2
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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.

This ebook edition published in 2010
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