The World: Life and Travels 1950-2000 by Jan MorrisThe first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and cultures from Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles fifty years of Morris's finest travel writing.

Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018) was a Carmelite nun and art historian who became world famous in the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC documentaries on the history of painting

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Joyful Children and Rediscover Your Love of Parenting

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