Happy Birthday Jan Morris

The prolific author, who has written often about her travels, turns 80 today. The Guardian pays tribute: “[S]he is one of the great pioneers of modern travel writing, displaying quirkiness, cultural curiosity and evocation in her essays and books.” Morris’s Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere made World Hum’s list of the all-time Top 30 Travel Books.

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