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Informationen zum Autor Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother. She spent the last years of her life 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 and Conundrum . She was 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 . She was recognized in 2018 for her outstanding contribution to travel writing by the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. In the same year, In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary was published. It was followed by a second volume of diaries, Thinking Again, in 2020, and then her posthumously published final book, Allegorizings, in 2021. Klappentext The diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the "Financial Times" over the course of 2017 are brought together here, marking the former soldier and journalist turning ninety while offering her perceptive and alternately scabrous and affectionate takes on a range of subjects. For fans of Alan Bennett's diaries and Bill Bryson. Zusammenfassung A treat for fans of Alan Bennett's diaries and the works of Bill Bryson and Diana Athill.
