Over Europe

by Jan Morris

Morris, Jan

Genres: Photography, Travel, Art, Nonfiction, Architecture

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Jan Morris was a British historian, author and travel writer. Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but is Welsh by heritage and adoption. Before 1970 Morris published under her assigned birth name, "James ", and is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City, and also wrote about Wales, Spanish history, and culture.

In 1949 Jan Morris married Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a tea planter. Morris and Tuckniss had five children together, including the poet and musician Twm Morys. One of their children died in infancy. As Morris documented in her memoir Conundrum, she began taking oestrogens to feminise her body in 1964. In 1972, she had sex reassignment surgery in Morocco. Sex reassignment surgeon Georges Burou did the surgery, since doctors in Britain refused to allow the procedure unless Morris and Tuckniss divorced, something Morris was not prepared to do at the time. They divorced later, but remained together and later got a civil union. On May, 14th, 2008, Morris and Tuckniss remarried each other. Morris lived mostly in Wales, where her parents were from.

Reviews

[David]

Lots of great aerial pictures throughout Europe. 1998 copyright means no simple drones used - thus blimps, helicopters, planes, etc. Shots were harder to take, so they were planned better. Shots of cities, castles, open fields. Great coffee-table book. Spotted this at a used bookstore and grabbed it.

It was a bit biased toward western Europe (more pix), that started the book. Such recognizable sights, it makes me want to return to visit.

4*

[Jazzmin]

This book has the most breath-taking, awe-inspiring photographs for anyone to appreciate. I loved it and think it can be appreciated by anyone, especially someone who is interested in Europe and it's gorgeous countries. Five stars for sure!

[Michael Heath-Caldwell]

Good book on aerial photography over Europe.

[ஐ Katya (Book Queen)ஐ]

This has amazing photographs. It's a large heavy book. (I got it on sale for $1). I read the descriptions under all the photographs, but skipped all the few pages introducing each section of Europe. The reason, the author was so boring with European history in the Introduction she nearly put you to sleep. So skipped all the pages of writing in the book (a few at the beginning of each section of Europe) and just stuck with the photos and their descriptions. The photos I'd give 4****, but for the text, I've got to downgrade the whole book to 3*** because her writing is just awful, dull, and boring.

[Sarah]

not uninteresting shots, but coffee table schlock

[Jackson]

The loveliest pictures. Bought it for a gift, but could not resist looking. I am glad that not everything is shrink-wrapped. Europe from the air is spectacular.

[daniel dirnfeld]

GREAT PICTURES

[Sarah]

Absolutely beautiful.