Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat - Couverture souple

Morris, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156302861 ISBN 13 : 9780156302869

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin, 2009

Synopsis

Book by James Morris

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Breathtaking ... A sensible and civilized view of imperial decline, nostalgic, regretful of some things, honest, justly proud, and curiously contented.' --New Statesman

'The British Empire is fortunate in having found in Morris a chronicler and memorialist who can do it justice ... Morris writes with inspired gusto, firmly rooted in erudition, which carries the book into the realms of literature.' --Sunday Telegraph

'A monument to immense perceptive industry, filling the text with shrewd knowledge and information ... This is, triumphantly, a traveller's book, as well as a journalist's and a writer's.' --The Economist

'One of our finest writers on Empire - alive to its glory, yet with a beady eye for the corruptions and failures which were at its heart, along with the dreams.' --Observer

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales. 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 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156302861
• ISBN 13: 9780156302869
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 576