The world
Subtitle: travels 1950-2000
By: Jan Morris.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Morris, Jan, 1926- -- Travel; Voyages and travels; World politics -- 1945-1989; World politics -- 1989-
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain under the title A writer's world : travels 1950-2000"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The 1950s; title: Mount Everest, 1953; title: A benign republic: USA; title: Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East; title: South African White and Black; title: Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean; title: Europe: after the war was over; title: Orientalisms: The Far East; title: The 1960s; title: The Eichmann Trial; title: The Cold War; title: South American frissons; title: Oxford, 1965; title: Australia; title: A New Africa; title: Manhattan, 1969; title: The 1970s; title: Pleasure places; title: Ex-Britannica; title: Casablanca: a change of sex; title: London, 1975; title: Post-glory: the USA; title: South African Black on White; title: The 1980s; title: On wistful whims: virtual places; title: Sydney, 1983; title: O Canada!; title: There stood China; title: Vienna, 1983; title: Y Wladfa: another Wales; title: Berlin, 1989; title: The 1990s; title: The flux of Europe; title: Light and shade in the USA; title: Sydney, 1995; title: Hong Kong.