Background
Morris, Jan was born on October 2, 1926.
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'Exquisite, powerful ...I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester This classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop. 'It was Morris who broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount Everest the day before the Queen's coronation in 1953 ...Allied to physical courage in getting down the mountain and a dogged resourcefulness in getting the news home, Morris scooped the world and was launched on one of the most remarkable literary careers in the second half of the 20th century.' Guardian
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(Jan Morris spent the South African winter of 1957 touring...)
Jan Morris spent the South African winter of 1957 touring the country for the Guardian. This book, the product of her travels, was not a political treatise but an evocation of the atmosphere of apartheid, and an impression of life in South Africa at a time of great tension. There are glimpses of the Johannesburg treason trial and a one-day strike in the locations of the Reef; portraits of such diverse figures as Harry Oppenheimer, the magnate-politician, and Christopher Gell, the influential liberal who spent his days in an iron lung; impressions of the Parliament, of the Zululand reserve, of life in the mines and the open veldt. Jan Morris visited all four provinces and talked to an immense number of people of all persuasions and all walks of life, and she devotes a chapter to the individualities of the Afrikaner character, as it then struck an impartial and not unsympathetic observer. South African Winter (1958) - in the brilliance of its writing, the wit, intelligence and sharpness of its observation - is a work of enduring fascination.
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(We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transpor...)
We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transporting us to other realms.' Salley Vickers The Hashemites are the oldest, proudest, most romantic and most tragic family of Greater Arabia. When the Arabs revolted against their Ottoman overlords, Hashemite fortunes became inseparably linked with those of Britain. The Hashemite Kings traces the strange history of this relationship, from its beginnings in the conspiracy and desert warfare, through the great days of the Hashemite Kingdoms to the assassinations and horrors of Baghdad in 1958. This dramatic story is shaped by the conflicting forces and ideas that govern the politics and passions of the Middle East. Colourful figures move through it - T. E. Lawrence, Ibn Suad, Glubb Pasha, Nasser - but the narrative is dominated by the Hashemite Kings themselves and told with Jan Morris's customary verve, panache and intelligence.
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("All of these stories are stolen property: stolen from un...)
"All of these stories are stolen property: stolen from unknown authors of indeterminate date, without so much as a blush or a by-your-leave. Where my work as a newspaper correspondent has taken me, I have filched local tales and legends, concentrating upon the more subtle and sophisticated kind of anecdote, and fighting shy of the whimsier folklore." ~ James Morris In all there are fifteen evocative tales, superbly illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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(Starting from Washington DC a distinguished correspondent...)
Starting from Washington DC a distinguished correspondent travels to Ethiopia, Siam. Italy, Columbia, India and Pakistan in an absorbing biography of a great international organization, The World Bank
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(Descriptive essays and photographs of Spain's history and...)
Descriptive essays and photographs of Spain's history and national life: its castles, Catholic cathedrals and monasteries, Moslem mosques, and images of its people. The grandeur and magnetism of Spain, her proud, brooding, and romantic aspects are superbly evoked in this volume, a collaboration between James Morris, a dazzlingly travel writer, and Evelyn Hofer, whose camera work is of unique sensitivity and integrity.
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( The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's epic story o...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's epic story 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. The story moves effortlessly across the world, from the English shores to Fiji, Zululand, the Canadian prairies and beyond. Totally gripping history!
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( This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at...)
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(Illustrated with an unsurpassed collection of paintings a...)
Illustrated with an unsurpassed collection of paintings and photographs that show not only what the Empire looked like in all the eccentric far-flung magnificence of its apex, but what it meant to the imperialists. The British Empire was one of the most astonishing phenomena of modern history and can be found in every corner of the world.
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(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morriss magnificent his...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morriss magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. Huge in scope and ambition, it is always personal and immediate, bringing the story vividly to life. Pax Britannica, the second volume, is a snapshot of the Empire at the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. It looks at what made up the Empire from adventurers and politicians to communications and infrastructure, as well as anomalies and eccentricities. This humane overview also examines the muddle of jumbled ideologies behind it, and how it affected its 370 million people.
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( This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at...)
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transpor...)
We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transporting us to other realms'. Salley Vickers Movement is the raison d'etre of New York. In The Great Port, Jan Morris explores the waterfronts and thoroughfares of 1950's Manhattan just as she navigated the canals of Venice; she knows every bridge, every tunnel, every island of the whole archipelago. She depicts the city as a place of constant motion, which has been translated into a culture of inveterate restlessness. First published in 1957, The Great Port is a vivid and entertaining portrait of a splendid old seaport whose purposes have gone awry. When The Great Port appeared in New York, the Wall Street Journal called it 'unique', the New York Times said it discovered more than most New Yorkers had ever learnt, and the Publisher's Weekly thought it perhaps the best book on New York since the classic work of E. B. White.
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( This concluding volume brings readers up to the death o...)
This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece...[a] book filled with superb studies of battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters" (New York Times Book Review). Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(This trilogy is the last that the author wrote as James M...)
This trilogy is the last that the author wrote as James Morris. Following gender reassignment she continues to write in the same bitter sweet style, as Jan Morris.
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( The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent h...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative, and occasionally elegiac.
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(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.
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(For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime ...)
For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. It is a traveller's book, geographically arranged but wandering at will from the past to the present, evoking not only contemporary landscapes and sensations but also the characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian 'Stato da Mar', it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.
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(Illustrated with an unsurpassed collection of paintings a...)
Illustrated with an unsurpassed collection of paintings and photographs that show not only what the Empire looked like in all the eccentric far-flung magnificence of its apex, but what it meant to the imperialists. The British Empire was one of the most astonishing phenomena of modern history and can be found in every corner of the world.
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(No empire in history built so variously as the British em...)
No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India. The buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted-from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj-some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway stations were elaborately orientalized, seaside villas were adjusted to suit Himalayan conditions, and everywhere the fundamental ambivalence of the British empire, a baffling mixture of good and evil, was mirrored in the imperial architecture. This book, now reissued with an introduction by Simon Winchester, was the first to describe the whole range of British constructions in India. The text and photographs illustrate these buildings not simply as physical objects, but as reflections of an empire's mingled emotions. Stones of Empire charts an enterprise in architecture, engineering, and social adaptation unique in human history.
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(This passionate evocation of Wales by the author Rebecca ...)
This passionate evocation of Wales by the author Rebecca West has hailed as "perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times" encapsulates that country in all its aspects, past, present, and even future. Jan Morris shows clearly the manners of thought of the Welch people, as well as their art, their landscapes and their folklore, their ways of earning a living, their character, their meaning and their historical destiny. Half Welsh, half English herself, Morris is a historian, a travel writer, and an essayist. All three disciplines she brings to this work--a vivid tribute to a country not just on the map or in the mind but also in the heart. "All of us," Morris writes, "have some small country there." About the Author: Jan Morris is the author of such books as the Pax Britannica trilogy, Spain, Destinations, and most recently, Journeys.
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(Visiting this imaginary place, somewhere on the Mediterra...)
Visiting this imaginary place, somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, is Jan Morris, commissioned by an American magazine to write letters from Hav. Under her gaze, sometimes baffled, always sharp, Hav and its bizarre inhabitants spring to life in this narrative.
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(A kind of meditation on Welsh history, past and future, f...)
A kind of meditation on Welsh history, past and future, from Owen Glendower to the 21st century, centred on the town of Machynlleth.
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(Fifty Years of Europe: An Album is an album of the author...)
Fifty Years of Europe: An Album is an album of the author¡¯s impressions of traveling in Europe for 50 years in the second half of the 20th century. A piece of travel literature as it is, it goes far beyond the description of the scenery within sight and the sensory perceptions. Morris¡¯s war experience, career background as an international journalist and profound historical knowledge enable his work to go deeper into history and culture and to explore the nature of things; although the author himself said it¡¯s "purely personal and completely subjective", it is a pleasant surprise.
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(Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldie...)
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 - ships, cities, cats, sex, nationalism, Jewishness, civility and kindness - are inspired by the presence of Trieste, and recorded in or between the lines of this book. Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind.
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This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the mom...)
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat 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 balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissolution of the British Empire. The Pax Britannica Trilogy includes Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress and Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire. Together these three works of history trace the dramatic rise and fall of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. Jan Morris is also world-renowned for her collection of travel writing and reportage, spanning over five decades and including such titles as Venice, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain, A Writer's World and most recently, Contact! "The British Empire is fortunate in having found in Morris a chronicler and memorialist who can do it justice...Morris writes with inspired gusto, firmly rooted in erudition, which carries the book into the realms of literature." (Sunday Telegraph). "One of our finest writers on Empire - alive to its glory, yet with a beady eye for the corruptions and failures which were at its heart, along with the dreams." (Observer).
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(This trilogy is the last that the author wrote as James M...)
This trilogy is the last that the author wrote as James Morris. Following gender reassignment she continues to write in the same bitter sweet style, as Jan Morris.
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(A second edition of the text originally published in 1978...)
A second edition of the text originally published in 1978. This title is the second volume in the triptych by the same author, depicting the rise and decline of the British Empire and it centres on the Diamond Jubilee of 1897.
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(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.
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(A celebration of Canada offers profiles of ten cities, ea...)
A celebration of Canada offers profiles of ten cities, each one representing a different aspect of Canada's landscape and people, and presents assessments and observations of their sights, sounds, smells, and citizens.
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(The US have not yet joined the war, Germans are still fig...)
The US have not yet joined the war, Germans are still fighting the Soviet Union and Britain has become a German Protectorate. To impress the neutral countries the Nazis decide to establish a free homeland for the Welsh to be called Cymru Newydd - but, of course, they have a hidden agenda.
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( The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent h...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative, and occasionally elegiac.
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(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.
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(Here at last is a collection of the best work of Jan Morr...)
Here at last is a collection of the best work of Jan Morris, considered by many the preeminent travel writer of our age. Reviewing her most recent book, The matter of Wales, the Christian Science Monitor wrote, "With this book, Morris joins the immortals. The splendors of the prose are like Homer's sea, simply everywhere. She is an absolute master of the sentence." Included are 37 separate pieces drawn from earlier books that span Morris's entire career as well as pieces origninally written for this book. Whether taking us back to Berlin and Beirut of the 1950's or to Houston and Sydney of the 1980s, Morris depicts each place with elegance, passion and wit. She captures and conveys its complex personality and makes us see the familiar in a new light or introduces us to places off the beaten track, taking us around the globe from Sri Lanka and Cashmir to Trouville and Cozco to Wyoming and Bath. About the Author: Jan Morris is the author of such books as the Pax Britannica trilogy, Spain, Destinations, and, most recently, Journeys and The Matter of Wales.
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(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.
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A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. “A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess” (The Observer). New Foreword by the Author. Index.
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Morris, Jan was born on October 2, 1926.
Master of Arts, Oxon University. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Wales. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Glamorgan.
Member editorial staff The Times, 1951-1956, The Guardian, 1957-1962.
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( This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at...)
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( This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at...)
(Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the mom...)
(Descriptive essays and photographs of Spain's history and...)
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( The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's epic story o...)
(Visiting this imaginary place, somewhere on the Mediterra...)
("All of these stories are stolen property: stolen from un...)
(A kind of meditation on Welsh history, past and future, f...)
(The US have not yet joined the war, Germans are still fig...)
(Here at last is a collection of the best work of Jan Morr...)
(Pax Britannica is actually a collection of three books ch...)
( A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seaso...)
(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent hi...)
(The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morriss magnificent his...)
( The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent h...)
( The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent h...)
(Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldie...)
(Jan Morris spent the South African winter of 1957 touring...)
(Starting from Washington DC a distinguished correspondent...)
(3 Books in box/ slip case (Heaven's Command, Pax Britanni...)
(3 Books in box/ slip case (Heaven's Command, Pax Britanni...)
( This concluding volume brings readers up to the death o...)
(We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transpor...)
(We are lucky to have Jan Morris, and her gift of transpor...)
(No empire in history built so variously as the British em...)
(This trilogy is the last that the author wrote as James M...)
(This trilogy is the last that the author wrote as James M...)
(A second edition of the text originally published in 1978...)
(Hardcover: 1360 pages Language: English 3 Books)
(Hardcover: 1360 pages Language: English 3 Books)
(London published History)
(London published History)
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(HISTORY)
Author: (as James or Jan Morris) Coast to Coast, 1956, Sultan inOman, 1957, The Market of Seleukia, 1957, Coronation Everest, 1958, South African Winter, 1958, The Hashemite Kings, 1959, Venice, 1960, The Upstairs Donkey (for children), 1962, The Road to Huddersfield, 1963, Cities, 1963, The Presence of Spain, 1964, Oxford, 1965, Pax Britannica, 1968, The Great Port, 1970, Places,1972, Heaven's Command, 1973, Farewell the Trumpets, 1978, Conundrum, 1974, Travels, 1976, The Oxford Book of Oxford, 1978, Spain, 1979, Destinations, 1980, The Venetian Empire, 1980, The Small Oxford Book of Wales, 1982, The Spectacle of Empire, 1982, Stones of Empire, 1983, Journeys, 1984, The Matter of Wales, 1984, Among the Cities, 1985, Last Letters from Hav, 1985, Manhattan '45, 1987, Hong Kong, 1988, Pleasures of a Tangled Life, 1989, O Canada, 1991, Sydney, 1992, Locations, 1992, Travels with Virginia Woolf, 1993, A Machynlleth Triad, 1994, Fisher's Face, 1995, Fifty Years of Europe: An Album, 1997, Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest, 1999, Our First Leader, 2000, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, 2001, A Writer's House in Wales, 2001, The World: Travels, 1950-2000, 2003.
Fellow Royal Society Literature, University College Wales (honorary), University College North Wales (honorary), Christ Church, (honorary, Oxford), Royal Institute British Architects (honorary), Academy Gymreig. Member Gorsedd of Bards, National Eisteddfod of Wales.