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1.Venice by: Jan Morris October 07, 2004
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I decided to read "Venice" in preparation for a week-long stay in the Italian city. Broken into three sections -- The People, The City, The Lagoon -- "Venice" is not a chronological history of the city but a meandering look at its past, present and future. Nor is it a guidebook, although it does contain a mine of information about what to see and where to go. I think "The Times" probably described it best when they said it was "a classic love letter to Italy's most iconic city", because it is, indeed, a beautiful missive dripping with exquisite descriptions. I found it an enormously engaging and evocative read by an accomplished writer who really knows how to string a simile or two together.For example: "Venice is ... Read More:

2.Between the Woods and the Water (New York Review Books Classics) by: Patrick Leigh Fermor October 10, 2005
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I read both of Fermor's books of his trek from UK towards Instanbul in sequence, and enjoyed both hugely. It was a great pity he never produced the projected 3rd volume! This (2nd) volume covers his travels through Hungary and Romania, largely by being befriended by local people and being in turn passed on to their friends, so he had the enormous luck of not only their open-handed hospitality but also of their local knowledge. Many of these characters are compelling: I especially loved the studious land-owner who opened the conversation by asking what was Fermor's special research topic. He was clearly disapproving that the 19y old had not got one, and was only mollified by his evidently wide classical reading. Fermor writes perceptively and sympathetically, ... Read More:

3.Spain by: Jan Morris August 07, 2008
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This perhaps is no longer a travel book, in the sense that the Spain that the author writes so evocatively about has in most part dissipated like the rare mist on the Castilian plain. Whilst modern Spain is a fine example of a modern, liberal industrialised society; at least in its principle cosmopolitan areas - one senses the lost of the Iberia that was. The grandeur of a nation that imparted so much to the world in the discovery of a New World, the staunch pride of a community of believers that was nearly biblical, a country of individuals who were in tune with the cycles of nature. This book serves as a paean to what was once, like a dusty knight tilting at those windmills.

4.Venice for Pleasure (Pallas for Pleasure) by: J.G. Links, Jan Morris October 01, 2008
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This perhaps is no longer a travel book, in the sense that the Spain that the author writes so evocatively about has in most part dissipated like the rare mist on the Castilian plain. Whilst modern Spain is a fine example of a modern, liberal industrialised society; at least in its principle cosmopolitan areas - one senses the lost of the Iberia that was. The grandeur of a nation that imparted so much to the world in the discovery of a New World, the staunch pride of a community of believers that was nearly biblical, a country of individuals who were in tune with the cycles of nature. This book serves as a paean to what was once, like a dusty knight tilting at those windmills.

5.Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by: Jan Morris July 22, 2002
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I really enjoyed this book about a city I drove through many times but only recently stopped in to enjoy its atmosphere. When I came home I eagerly read this book and was so taken by Jan's writing on the city that I want to go back at the earliest opportunity. That for me is travel writing at its best.

6.Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica) by: Jan Morris February 03, 2003
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The great thing about Jan Morris is that she brings so many different qualities to her books. Nostalgia, humour, insight, and wonderful storytelling, all of which are present in abundance in this marvelous account of the Genesis of that most remarkable of Empires. It was an Empire that was cruel, repressive, civilising, gracious and compassionate depending on which subject of the Crown was dispensing the rules to the natives. Being a native of one of the former colonies (Ireland) I am all too familiar with the negative aspects of the Empire. Our famine is at once an epic tragedy and also an indictment of the British Empires lack of compassion. On the other hand when you read this book you cannot but admire the great energy and sacrifice of so many loyal British ... Read More:

7.Wales Epic Views of a Small Country by: Jan Morris April 27, 2000
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If you are Welsh, have Welsh ancestors or went on holiday to Rhyl as a child, this book will induce a sense of bitter-sweet homesickness for a country with a fierce pride in being 'not English', despite being regarded as an English region by most of the rest of the world. The author brings out the pride, sadness and essential 'otherness' of the Welsh people and culture. The sadness comes from many sources - the dark melancholy of a Celtic race, the centuries of losing on the battlefield to a larger foe, the grey, damp, rocky landscape seeping into it's people's souls and joints. But the pride comes from still having a language that is central to their culture and from feeling part of a distinct country, for surviving, despite all the forces of history. Read More:

8.Conundrum by: Jan Morris April 08, 2002
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Transsexual biographies are a mixed bunch. Jan Morris's Conundrum is one of the few by a really good writer. Much of what she said resonated with my own experience of gender dysphoria and reading her book helped me through my own sex change.

9.Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica) by: Jan Morris February 03, 2003
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This trilogy of history made interesting and amusing with wonderfull odd letters and accounts poems and songs makes this the bast history read ever.I now understand so much more of my country and why things happened excellent.

10.Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica) by: Jan Morris February 03, 2003
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This, together with the other 2 books in this trilogy by Morris remain among my favourite books. The rich storytelling, the attention to detail and the many amusing footnotes to the history of the British Empire are fascinating. I have been to many of the places Morris describes, and he brings them to life, even now.

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