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Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects - ships, cities, cats, sex, nationalism, Jewishness, civility and kindness - are inspired by the presence of Trieste, and recorded in or between the lines of this book. Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571204434
eBay Product ID (ePID)89170706
Product Key Features
Book TitleTrieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
AuthorJan Morris
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicPeople
Publication Year2001
Dimensions
Item Height224mm
Item Width140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJan Morris
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom