The World: Life and Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris wooden greeting card Blanchard Professor of New Testament

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The World: Life and Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris wooden greeting card Blanchard Professor of New TestamentThe first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and cultures from Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles fifty years of Morris's finest travel writing.