The world : travels 1950-2000
Title:
The world : travels 1950-2000
Author:
Morris, Jan, 1926-
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Writer's world
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
xiv, 458 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain under the title A writer's world : travels 1950-2000"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
The 1950s ; 1. Mount Everest, 1953 ; 2. A benign republic: USA ; 3. Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East ; 4. South African White and Black ; 5. Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean ; 6. Europe: after the war was over ; 7. Orientalisms: The Far East -- The 1960s ; 8. The Eichmann Trial ; 9. The Cold War ; 10. South American frissons ; 11. Oxford, 1965 ; 12. Australia ; 13. A New Africa ; 14. Manhattan, 1969 -- The 1970s ; 15. Pleasure places ; 16. Ex-Britannica ; 17. Casablanca: a change of sex ; 18. London, 1975 ; 19. Post-glory: the USA ; 20. South African Black on White -- The 1980s ; 21. On wistful whims: virtual places ; 22. Sydney, 1983 ; 23. O Canada! ; 24. There stood China ; 25. Vienna, 1983 ; 26. Y Wladfa: another Wales ; 27. Berlin, 1989 -- The 1990s ; 28. The flux of Europe ; 29. Light and shade in the USA ; Portland, Oregon ; 30. Sydney, 1995 ; 31. Hong Kong.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780393052084
Format :
Book
