Pax Britannica (66 page)
Authors: Jan Morris
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Political Science, #Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, #Modern, #General
- Van Neikerk, Captain,
1 - Vanity
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1 - Venezuela,
1 - Venice, Italy,
1 - Vibhaji, Ranjitsinjhi,
1 - Viceroy’s Cup race,
1 - Victoria, Queen of England,
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- on British Empire,
- Victoria, Australia,
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and n. - Victoria and Albert Museum,
- London,
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and n. - Vienna, Austria,
1 - Vienna Café, Melbourne,
1 - Villeneuve, Admiral Pierre,
1 - Vincent, Sir Howard,
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and n.,
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- Waghorn, Thomas,
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and n. - Wakefield, Edward Gibbon,
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and n. - War Office,
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and n. - Webb, Mrs Sidney (Beatrice),
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n. - Wellington, New Zealand,
1 - Wells, David A.,
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and n. - Westmacott, Richard,
1 - White Pass, Canada,
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and n. - Wilberforce, William,
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and n. - Wilson, Admiral Arthur,
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n. - Windward Islands,
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and n. - Women’s Health Protective Association, Brooklyn,
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Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea.
Her books include
Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven’s Command, Pax Britannica,
and
Farewell the Trumpets),
and
Conundrum
. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer’s World,
a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003.
Hav
, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006.
This ebook edition published in 2010
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