Manhattan ’45

US$65

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Jan Morris’s exuberant and witty love letter to the Manhattan of 1945 effortlessly evokes a time when it was ‘the most hopeful city on earth’.

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AuthorJan Morris

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About the Author

Jan Morris (1926–2020) was a historian and travel writer who made her name as a journalist, famously as The Times correspondent accompanying the British Mount Everest expedition in 1953. She published some forty books, including Coronation Everest (1958), Venice (1960; Folio Society edition 2008), the Pax Britannica Trilogy (1968/1973/1978; Folio Society edition 1992), Conundrum (1974), The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage (1980; Folio Society edition 2014), Manhattan ’45 (1986; Folio Society edition 2016), Spain(1988), Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001), and a novel, Last Letters from Hav (1985), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2018 she won the Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing Award, and her last published book was Thinking Again (2020), a volume of diaries.

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