A collection of essays about journeys across Europe and China, the folkways of rural Texas, the streets of Bombay, and impressions of such diverse sites as Las Vegas, Stockholm, and the Athenian Acropolis
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Jan Morris, hailed by Rebecca West as 'perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times', and by Alastair Cooke as the 'Flaubert of the jet age', is the author of numerous best-selling works on places, travel, and history.
"A marvelous collection of travel essays....Morris brings a literate, curious and very individual personality to her travel observations....She has a real talent for capturing the essence of a place."--The Baltimore Sun
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