New York is viewed as a harbour in a detailed portrait which captures its exuberance and glories as well as its squalors
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About the Author:
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.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0195035763
- ISBN 13 9780195035766
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages229
- IllustratorBelva Albert
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