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Book SynopsisNew York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice
Jan Morris delivers her final volume, brimming with reminiscences, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana.
Trade Review"Throughout, she demonstrates the stylistic command that has always distinguished her work. While stressing empathy and resisting pomposity, she refuses to suffer fools gladly. Engaging reflections on a life lived fully and well." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Perhaps the greatest travel writer of her time." -- Matt Schudel - Washington Post
"To open a book by Jan Morris is like popping the cork on a bottle of champagne: pop, fizz, then bubbles of delight." -- Scott Simon - NPR
"Distinctive, elegant, formidable. . . . Morris made travel seem like the best way to truly be alive in one’s skin." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times
"No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career—from travel to history to her own transition—she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty." -- Stuart Emmrich - Vogue
