Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to
Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ...
but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.'
Sydney takes us on the city's journey from penal colony to
world-class metropolis, as lively and charming as the city it
describes. With characteristic exuberance and sparkling prose, Jan
Morris guides us through the history, people and geography of a
fascinating and colourful city. Jan Morris's collection of travel
writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such
titles as Venice, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan '45, A Writer's World
and the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for
the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. 'Sydney should be
flattered. A great portrait painter has chosen it for her recent
subject . . . Few writers - a handful of novelists apart - have got
so far under the city's skin as Morris . . . Few Sydneysiders could
match her knowledge of their city's history and its anecdotes' The
Times 'The writing is, at times, like surfing: sentences rise like
vast waves above which she rides, never overbalancing into gush . .
. Jan Morris convincingly explains modern Sydney through its
history' Observer
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