Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Text pages clean & bright. Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Overall, a very good copy. --Journeys, her latest book of collected travel essays, takes us to a succession of strikingly diverse locales, some far away and exotic, some more familiar. The pieces on American cities and landscapes are especially notable--. Includes the essays: Over the Bridge (Australia), Fun City (Las Vegas, NV), A Visit to Barchester (UK), Thums Up (India), Boomtown! (Houston, TX), Not So Far (Europe), Oil on Granite (Scotland), What they Had to Offer (Miami, FL), Trans-Texan ( America), The Best of Everything (Sweden), In Ruritania (Yugoslavia), Capital of the Holy Faith (Santa Fe, NM), and, Very Strange Feelings (China). Jan Morris originally wrote works under her former name of James Morris...she turned into Jan after a sex change operation (which brought much publicity, not all of it wanted) during the 1970's.

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