Jan Morris is the author of some forty books, most notably the Pax Britannica trilogy about the rise and fall of the British Empire.
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Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her 'the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands'. Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate im... SEE MORE