I first got to know Jan Morris, a diverting fellow traveller, in the beaten way of book festivals from here to Australia. But I never met James Morris, who sat under the family piano at the age of ...
No writer captivated me more than Jan Morris. She climbed 22,000 feet up Mount Everest in 1953 and raced down from base camp to tell the world that Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary had reached the ...
Morris broke the news of the 1953 ascent of Everest and became a leading travel writer. Her own story drew fascination and ...