by Jan Morris
Lord Chancellor, England, 1
Los Angeles, 1
Louvre, Paris, 1
Lowe, George, 1
Lübars, Berlin, 1
Lugou Bridge, Beijing, 1
Luther, Martin, 1
Luthuli, Chief, 1
McElwain, Seamus, 1
Mackenzie-Grieve, Kenneth, 1
Macmillan, Harold, 1
Madara Horseman, 1
Madonna, cult of the, 1, 2, 3
Mahler, Gustav, 1, 2
‘mammy-wagons’, 1
Manchester Guardian, see Guardian
Manhattan, 1, 2, 3 1950s, 1
1960s, 1
1970s, 1
1990s, 1
World Trade Center, 1
Manhattan (film), 1
Manly Beach, Sydney, 1
Mann, Thomas, 1, 2
Manooth, Bill, 1
Mao Zedong, 1
Marcello, Benedetto, 1
Marianske Lazne, 1
Marienbad, 1
Medugorje, 1
Melbourne, 1
Melbourne, Lord, 1 2
Mercer, Johnny, 1
Metternich, Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel, 1
middle class, English, 1
Middle East,
1950s 1, 2
Arabs in London, 1
monarchy, British, 1, 2
Montague-Browne, Mr, 1
Montenegro, 1
Moore, Robert, 1
Morny, Duc de, 1
Morocco, 1
Morris, Jan: books by, Cities, 1
Coast to Coast, 1
Conundrum, 1
Coronation Everest, 1
Destinations, 1
Fisher’s Face, 1
The Great Port, 1
The Market of Seleukia, 1
O Canada!, 1
Oxford, 1
Pax Britannica, 1, 2
The Road to Huddersfield, 1
South African Winter, 1
Sultan in Oman, 1, 2
Venice, 1, 2
Moscow, 1, 2, 3
Mostar, 1
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1
Mozin, Charles, 1
Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Sydney, 1
Murder by Death (film), 1
Muscat and Oman, 1
music, and Leipzig, 1
and Vienna, 1
and Weimar, 1, 2
Musil, Robert, 1
Naples, 1
Napoleon I (Emperor of France), tomb of, 1
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, regime of, 1
and Suez Affair (1956), 1
National Front, 1
Nazis, Nazi-hunting, 1
and Weimar, 1
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1
Nepal, Sherpa lifestyle and food, 1
Nestorius, 1
New National Gallery, Berlin, 1
New Zealand, Australian jokes about, 1
New York, 1, 2, 3
1950s, 1
1960s, 1
1970s, 1
1990s, 1
New York harbour, 1, 2
World Trade Center, 1
New York Times, 1, 2
Newfoundland, 1
newspapers, Chicago Tribune, 1
Ghanaian Times, 1
New York Times, 1, 2
Singapore, 1
see also Guardian; The Times
Nigeria, 1
Nikisch, Arthur, 1
Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, 1
Niven, David, 1
Nkhruma, Kwame, 1
Northern Ireland, 1
Nuri es-Said Pasha, 1
Observatory Hill, Darjeeling, 1
Odessa, 1
Olbrich, Josef, 1
Olivier, Laurence, 1
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1
Oman, 1
Ottawa, 1
Oxford, 1
Padang, Singapore, 1
Pakistan, 1, 2
Paris, 1
1950s, 1
1990s, 1, 2, 3
Parliament Palace, Bucharest, 1
Patagonia, 1
Patriarchal Cathedral, Bucharest, 1
Peace Hotel, Shanghai, 1
Peking, see Beijing
People’s Park, Shanghai, 1
Percival, Gen. Arthur, 1
Peru, 1
Peter I, the Great (Tsar of Russia), 1, 2
Petticoat Lane market, London, 1, 2
Philharmonic Hall, Berlin, 1
Piccadilly Circus, London, 1
Pinchgut Island, Sydney, 1
plantations, American South, 1
Poland, 1
Pontypridd, 1
Port of Spain, 1
Port Said, 1
Portland, 1
Portland Building, 1, 2
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 1
Powell’s City of Books, Portland, 1
Powers, Gary, trial of (1960), 1
Pretoria, 1
Pritchett, V. S., 1
Provence, 1
Puerto Madryn, 1
QE2, 1, 2, 3
Quechua Indians, 1
Qianmen Gate, Beijing, 1
race relations, Australia, 1, 2, 3
London, 1
South Africa, 1, 2
Trinidad, 1
USA, 1
Radio City Music Hall, New York, 1
Raffles, Sir Stamford, 1
Raffles Hotel, Singapore, 1
railways, Australia, 1
Canada, 1
Trans-Siberian, 1
USA, 1, 2
Raveh, Dr Yitzak, 1
Reichstag, Berlin, 1
Reza Shah, 1
Rheingau, 1
Rhine River, 1
Richardson, Sir Ralph, 1
Richelieu, Comte de, 1
Rila, 1
Ringstrasse, Vienna, 1
Rio de Janeiro, 1, 2, 3
road trains, 1
roads, Los Angeles, 1
Rockefeller Center, New York, 1 skating rink, 1, 2
Rocky Mountain Rocket, 1
Rodia, Simon, 1
Rodin, Auguste, 1
Rohe, Mies van der, 1
Rolls-Royces, 1
Romania, 1
Rome, 1, 2
Rudolf (Crown Prince of Austria), 1, 2
Ruse, 1
Russian Orthodox Church, 1
Rutli, 1
St Bartholomew Church, Ottawa, 1
St Honoré, Paris, 1
St John, monastery of, Rila, 1
St John’s, Newfoundland, 1
St Peter and St Paul, church of, Siauliai, 1
St Peter and St Paul, church of, Weimar, 1
St Petersburg, 1, 2
Salome (Strauss), 1
Samoëns, 1
San Francisco, 1, 2
Sarajevo, 1
Saratoga, 1
Schaulen, 1
Schiller, Friedrich, 1, 2, 3, 4
Schloss Johannisberg, 1, 2
Schumann, Robert, 1
Schwab’s Drugstore, Hollywood, 1
Secession House, Vienna, 1
Seine River, 1
Servatius, Dr, 1, 2
Shakespeare, William, 1
Shanghai, 1, 2
The Shared Benevolence Hall, Beijing, 1
Sheekey’s Restaurant, London, 1
Shelton, Col., 1
Sherpas, 1, 2
shikaras, 1
Shinto, 1
Shipka, 1
shopping, Darjeeling, 1
New York, 1, 2
Warsaw, 1
show trials, Soviet, 1
Siauliai, 1
Sidney, Philip, 1
Sigiriya, 1
Simon, Neil, 1
Sinai, 1
Singapore, 1
Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, 1, 2
Sofia, 1
SoHo, New York, 1
Sotheby’s, London, 1
South Africa, 1, 2
South America, 1
Soviet Union,
1950s, 1
1960s, 1, 2
1990s, 1
and Bulgaria, 1
and Lithuania, 1
Moscow, 1, 2, 3
Odessa, 1
St Petersburg, 1, 2
show trials, 1
Soweto, 1
Spain, 1
Sri Lanka, 1
Srinigar, 1, 2, 3
Staël, Madame de, 1
Stalin, Josef, tomb of, 1
Stark, Ray, 1
Stellenbosch, 1
Stockholm, 1
Stoll Theatre, London, 1
Straits Times, 1
Strauss, Johann, the Elder, 1
Strauss, Richard, 1, 2
Sudanese Republic, 1
Suez Affair (1956), 1
Summer Garden, St Petersburg, 1
Summer Palace, Beijing, 1, 2
Sweden, 1
Switzerland, 1
Sydney, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sydney Cove, 1
Sydney Opera House, 1, 2, 3
Sydney Stock Exchange, 1
Taylor, A. J. P., 1
Tehran, 1
Teichmüller, Robert, 1
Tel Aviv, 1
Tempelhof Airport, 1
Tenzing Norkay, Sherpa, 1, 2
terrorism, 1
Thames River, 1
Theroux, Paul, 1
The Third Man (film), 1
Thomaskirche, Leipzig, 1, 2
Tibetans, 1
The Times, London, 1, 2, 3 passim
Tirana, 1
Tobin, Austin, 1
Tonka, Baba, 1
Toronto, 1
Toronto Islands, 1
Toronto Stock Exchange, 1
Tower of London, 1, 2
traffic, Chicago, 1
Manhattan, 1
Naples, 1
Rome, 1
trains, see railways
Trevelin, 1
Trieste, 1
Trinidad, 1
Trollope, Anthony, JM’s hunt for Barchester, 1, 2
Trouville, 1
Turgenev, Ivan, 1
Turkey, and Bulgaria, 1
Turner, Lana, 1
Ulster, 1
Union Station, Los Angeles, 1
United Nations, 1 1960s, 1
New York headquarters building, 1
and Trieste, 1
US Sixth Fleet, 1
USA, 1950s, 1, 2
1970s, 1
1980s, 1
1990s, 1, 2
American character, 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6
and Britain, 1
and Canada, 1, 2, 3, 4
Chicago, 1
Cold War, 1, 2
Los Angeles, 1
as only superpower, 1
Portland, 1
railways, 1, 2
San Francisco, 1, 2
South, 1
West Point, 1
see also Manhattan
Valentino, Rudolph, 1
Vancouver, 1
Vaux, Calvert, 1
Venice, 1
Versailles, Palace of, 1
Vetsera, Marie, ‘the little Baroness’, 1
Vienna, 1
vineyards, 1
Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, 1
Wagner, Richard, 1, 2
Waldheim, Kurt, 1
Wales, 1, 2, 3, 4
Walpole, Horace, 1
Warsaw, 1
Washington Square, New York, 1
Water St, St John’s, 1
Watts Towers, Los Angeles, 1
Waugh, Evelyn, 1
Weggis, 1
Weimar, 1
Weimar, Carl August, Duke of, 1, 2
Wells, 1
Wells Cathedral, 1
Wells Cathedral School, 1
Wenner, Jann, 1
West Point, 1
West Side Highway, New York, 1
Westminster Abbey, London, 1
Wiesenthal, Simon, 1
wildlife, Sri Lanka, 1
Willy Brandt-Platz, Leipzig, 1, 2
Windamere Hotel, Darjeeling, 1, 2
wine, 1
Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 1
Wolf, Hugo, 1
Wordsworth, William, 1
World Trade Center, New York, 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1
Writers’ Union, Bucharest, 1
Y Drafod, 1
Y Wladfa, 1
Yamashita, Gen. Tomoyuki, 1
Yangtze River, 1
Yorubas, 1, 2
Yu Garden, Shanghai, 1
Zagreb, 1
Zhongnanhai, Beijing, 1
Zhou Enlai, 1
About the Author
Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea.
Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven’s Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer’s World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003. Hav, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006.
Copyright
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All pictures reproduced by kind permission of Magnum Photos:
1950s – Egypt, Cairo © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
1960s – Moscow, Saint-Basile © Burt Glinn / Magnum Photos
1970s – India, Delhi © John Vink / Magnum Photos
1980s – Germany, Berlin © Guy Le Querrec / Magnum Photos
1990s – Austria, Sydney © Trent Parke / Magnum Photos
Also, thanks to Sickle Moon Books for permission to reproduce the essay on Oman and Viking Press for the essay on Romania.
ISBN 978–0–571–26601–2