Coast to Coast

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 Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane. Jan Morris's very first book, an account of her tour of 1950s America, reissued with a new introduction. Zusammenfassung Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and aeroplane.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jan Morris, Morris Jan
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780571241774
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24177-4
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 17 mm
• Catégories: Voyage > Récits de voyage > Amérique du Nord et centrale; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, North America, TRAVEL / United States / General, Travel & holiday, Literary essays, Classic Travel Writing