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The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000
by Jan Morris
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2005-04)
ISBN: 0393326489
EAN: 9780393326482
Dewy Decimal #: 910
Paperback: 458 pages
SKU: T070935-7011
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
THE FIRST BOOK to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, "The World is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and cultures from Manhatten to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles fifty years of Morris's finest travel writing. With eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successfully ascent of Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the handover of Hong Kong, "The World promises to create an entirely new generation of Jan Morns readers.
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