Europe (eBook)

Jan Morris (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-26594-7 (ISBN)

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Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait of a continent.

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.

Rezensionen

More than just a travel memoir, this book is a wonderful rediscovery of a continent that we often pass over in our quest for far-flung travel. Jan Morris conducts a close examination of the similarities and diversities that created the European character. Her knowledge of her subject makes this book educational in the best possible sense.

Charming, quirkily informative and full of insight.

Our best and most prolific travel writer ... A coherent and revealing portrait of a continent seeking to reinvent itself after centuries of turmoil.

Jan Morris's most original book.

Morris, ho has the nose of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian and the sensibility of a travel writer, has woven together an affectionate, subtle and discerning portrait of the European character as well as the "bits and pieces clinging to the edge of it ... she is wonderfully atuned to the colour and quirks of different nationalities and even goes so far as to identify the maddest.

[Jan Morris] at the height of her incomparable form ... Imagine listening to a great raconteur on a good evening. The contributions are cogent, pertinent and articulate, controversial but never overbearing ... Who would not wish to be of the company?

A delight ... Jan Morris travels as we all should, and so few of us do, or can: incessantly watchful, curious, analytical and, in the end, accepting.

May all the colour, superstitions and quirks of the countries of our continent, may the very differences so delicately portrayed by Jan Morris in her writing, survive.

[Describes] the space-time continuum of the continent of Europe - not just its grand history, but the prawn-eaters of the Grand Café in the main square of Oslo; the six reasons why the former residence of Romanian royalty may not be entered (of which only the sixth is that it is closed); an old woman's gift of a sprig of rosemary in a Portugal long since rendered unreachable by the distance that is time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2010
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa
• Schlagworte: Bill Bryson • Everest • exploration • Journalism • Michael Palin • Raynor Winn • Robert Macfarlane • Ticket To Ride • Travel and Adventure • Travelogue
• ISBN-10: 0-571-26594-4 / 0571265944
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-26594-7 / 9780571265947