JAN MORRIS

Fecha de publicación: 2008 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain's pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a his...

Fecha de publicación: 2008 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city.'Entertaining, ironical, witty, high spirited and appreciative . . . Both melancholy and gay and worldly, I think of it now as among the best books on Ven...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS '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 Evere...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of it...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: 'How should a poet properly live and write? Wha...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS 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, ...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, J...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Jan Morris traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic brilliance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retr...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and bo...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects -...