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Morris, Jan
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Morris, Jan
English travel writer and journalist. Her books display a zestful, witty, and knowledgeable style and offer deftly handled historical perspectives. They include Coast to Coast (1956), Venice (1960), Oxford (1965), Farewell the Trumpets (1978), and Among the Cities (1985). Fisher's Face (1995) is a biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher. Born James Morris, her adoption of female gender is described in Conundrum (1974), and Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989) is a further autobiographical study.
As a young journalist with the British Everest expedition in 1953, James Morris was the first to send news that the mountain had been conquered. Her book Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001) describes the impression made on her the first time she saw Trieste as a member of the 9th Lancers.
© RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.
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