Fifty Years of Europe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Morris
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1946-1996
- Setting: Various locations in the thirty-five European states
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Politics, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Religion, Ethnic groups, Food, Economic conditions, Transportation, Geography
- Locales: Europe
As a young correspondent for the Times of London and then the Manchester Guardian, James Morris covered Europe following World War II. It was his dispatch from the first successful Hillary/Tenzing expedition to conquer Everest that reached Queen Elizabeth on the eve of her coronation in 1953. In 1972, at the age of forty-six and in a process described in his book Conundrum (1974), Morris underwent a sex change operation and became Jan Morris. The writings on Europe continued through the transformation, in book after book, from Venice (1960), The Presence...
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