No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India. The buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted -- from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj--some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway...

A collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year, about the twenty-first century and the author's place in it. Morris embarks on an entirely new literary enterprise: a collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year. Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, Morris offers diverse sallies on her preferred form of exercises, her frustration at not recognizing a certain melody humming...

Descriptive essays and photographs of Spain's history and national life: its castles, Catholic cathedrals and monasteries, Moslem mosques, and images of its people.

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man's man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood,...