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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Author(s): Morris (Author)
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date: 2 Oct. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 203 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780743201285
- ISBN-13: 0743201280
Book Description
The travel author and historian journeys to the beguiling city of Trieste, Italy, which has enchanted her for more than fifty years, to explore issues of patriotism, decency, wildness, and sex.
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About the Author
Jan Morris has written more than thirty books on the British Empire, Europe, Venice, Oxford, Sydney, Hong Kong, Man-hattan and Wales, as well as six volumes of collected essays and two autobiographical works. Her novel, Last Letters from Hav, was a finalist for the Booker Prize. She is an honorary D.Litt. of the universities of Wales and Glamorgan, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She lives in Wales.
