Sydney - Hardcover

Morris, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394550986 ISBN 13: 9780394550985

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Let loose in a town whose first citizens were British criminals, a world-renowned travel writer shows how Sydney has grown into a beguiling, vibrant city full of promise.

About this title

Book Description:

Sydney is Jan Morris's fascinating guide to the history, people and geography of Sydney, elegantly written with the skill and knowledge of Britain's greatest living travel writer.

About the Author:

Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives 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 (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and, more recently, the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer's World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003. Hav, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her most recent book, Contact!, about the people she encountered on her many travels, was published in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0394550986
• ISBN 13: 9780394550985
• Binding: Hardcover