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Contemporary accounts by notable figures, linked together with commentary, celebrate and recount the history of Oxford, the city and the university, illuminating a long tradition of scholarship accented with boisterousness and eccentricity
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About the Author
Jan Morris, who is Anglo-Welsh by parentage, divides her time between her library house in North Wales, he dacha in the Black Mountains of South Wales, and travels abroad. She is an Honorary Fellow of the University College of Wales.
Of her work Paul Theroux has remarked, 'I don't think that there is a writer alive who has Jan Morris's serenity or strength'. Her many publications include: Venice (1960), Oxford (1965), the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968), and The Matter of Wales (1984). She has also published a novel, Last Letters from Hav, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, as well as books on Hong Kong, Manhatten, and Sydney.
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`Review from previous edition an admirable book ... full of bustling Oxford life'
Times Literary Supplement
`The whole book is composed of choice quotes ... a book in which to put your thumb and pull out a plum'
Financial Times
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 019214104X
- ISBN 13 9780192141040
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- EditorMorris Jan
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