Book description
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, 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, most recently, the
unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. Hav, a novel, was
published in a new and enlarged edition by Faber in 2006.
