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  • Hav

    by Jan Morris ...
    “Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged” in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times).“A touching lover letter . . . to life itself”—featuring Last Letters from Hav, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Independent)Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Conundrum

    by Jan Morris ...
    One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).“A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times“An exquisite read.”—Maria Popova, The MarginalianThe great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

    by Jan Morris ...
    One hundred years ago, Trieste was the chief seaport of the entire Austro-Hungarian empire, but today many people have no idea where it is. This fascinating Italian city on the Adriatic, bordering the former Yugoslavia, has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and melancholy. She has chosen it as the subject of this, her final work, because it was the first city she knew as an adult -- ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Conundrum

    by Jan Morris ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 12 min

    This remarkable memoir is the classic account of the transgender journey. It is all the more extraordinary because it is the life story of a figure who, it seemed, seamlessly and publicly charted a course through the English establishment - James Morris, outstanding journalist, historian and travel writer, famed for a peerless writing style. But all the while he was concealing a very different ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Heaven’s Command

    by Jan Morris ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 30 min

    The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. Heaven’s Command, the first volume, takes us from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, moving ... Read more

    $25.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Traveled Man on Earth

    by Jan Morris ...
    Six centuries ago, the Islamic world was the pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the twelfth-century diaries of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who spent thirty years journeying some 73,000 miles. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed writer and bestselling author Jan Morris, in the little-known story of perhaps the greatest traveler of all time. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World

    Life and Travel 1950-2000

    by Jan Morris ...
    "The travel book of the season."—Craig Seligman, New York Times Book ReviewThe first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Allegorizings

    by Jan Morris ...
    New York Times Book Review • Editors' ChoiceJan Morris delivers her final volume, brimming with reminiscences, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana.Not so long ago, feeling intimations of mortality, Jan Morris embarked on a wholly novel literary enterprise. What began as a series of high-minded letters to her late daughter—in the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • A Writer's House in Wales

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Directions
    Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Trieste And Meaning Of Nowhere

    by Jan Morris ...
    A book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste.This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The 2nd New & Old Time Radio Collection

    by Donnie Pitchford, Donnie Pitchford, Donnie Pitchford, Charles Dawson Butler, Alan Reed, William Melillo5, Charlie Morrow2, Victor Gates4, Ralph Tyler5, Anton Chekhov6, Jim Nixon7, Mitchell Pearson8, Bob Martin0, Justin Felix1, various authors7, Joe Bevilacqua9, Pedro Pablo Sacristán2 ...
    Narrated by Donnie Pitchford, Lorie Kellogg, Charles Dawson Butler, Alan Reed, Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly0, Vernon Morris1, Henry J. Quinn2, Jan Meredith3, Roger Hendricks Simon4, William Melillo6, Alison Nead7, Rick Ramos8, Aundrae Dair9, Cathi Tully0, Thomas Babkowski1, Charlie Morrow3, Mitchell Pearson9, Orson Welles2, Howard Koch3, James Patrick Cronin4, John Houseman5, Peter Navargic6, a full cast8, Joe Bevilacqua0, Matty O’Shea1 ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 1 min

    A tribute to the golden age of radio from veteran producer Joe Bevilacqua and comic strip artist Donnie Pitchford, The 2nd New & Old Time Radio Collection is a series of new stories and parodies featuring beloved radio characters and shows.A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Volume 1This half-hour anthology represents more than forty years of storytelling by Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a Joe Bev, the award ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • Sultan in Oman

    by Jan Morris ...
    In 1955 the winds of change were beginning to blow across the Sultanate of Oman, a hitherto truly medieval state. Rumours of subversion mingled with the unsettling smell of oil to propel the Sultan on a royal progress across the desert hinterland, from his southern capital of Salala to the northern capital of Muscat. It was an historic journey – the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus