Destinations by Jan Morris
Contains ten essays that brilliantly recapture the essence of places as diverse as Washington just after Watergate, Delhi under Mrs. Gandhi, Panama, Los Angeles, Southern Africa, London, Cairo at the time of the Israeli-Egyptian talks, Istanbul, Trieste, and Manhattan.-
A Sand County Almanac
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The Art of War
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
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The Divine Comedy: I. Inferno
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Signs and Symbols in Christian Art
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The Divine Comedy: II. Purgatorio
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The Idea of the Holy
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The Divine Comedy: III. Paradiso
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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The Mirror and the Lamp
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The Epistle to the Romans
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Philosophy of Right
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The Principles of Art
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English Romantic Poets
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King Arthur and his Knights
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The Major Film Theories
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The God of the Witches
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Theology of Culture
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Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman
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Beowulf
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The Pursuit of the Millennium
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An Introduction to Mathematics
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A Season in Hell
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Writing with Power
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The Idea of Nature
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Egypt of the Pharaohs
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Science Fiction
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American Renaissance
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Mathematics
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Medieval Technology and Social Change
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Rethinking the Soviet Experience
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The Man-Eating Myth
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The Arrogance of Humanism
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The Damned and the Beautiful
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The White Man's Burden
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James Joyce
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Stalin
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Round River
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Slave Religion
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Siva
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Love, Power and Justice
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Mozart
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The Twilight of Imperial Russia
"Jan Morris's accounts of her journeys are distinguished by a veteran journalist's eye for the precisely revealing detail, the prose of a master stylist, and the insights of a wise and worldly travellerStudents of writing and of the literature of travel will find much to learn and to enjoy in Destinations."--Robert Emmett Ginna, Jr., Harvard University "Jan Morris's accounts of her journeys are distinguished by a veteran journalist's eye for the precisely revealing detail, the prose of a master stylist, and the insights of a wise and worldly traveller. Students of writing and of the literature of travel will find much to learn and to enjoy in Destinations."--Robert Emmett Ginna, Jr., Harvard University
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780195030693 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195030699 |
| Title | Destinations |
| Author | Jan Morris |
| Series | Galaxy Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1983-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |