Trieste

Jan Morris

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571265992
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects - ships, cities, cats, sex, nationalism, Jewishness, civility and kindness - are inspired by the presence of Trieste, and recorded in or between the lines of this book.?

Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind.

Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Venice, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan '45, A Writer's World and the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• a necessary explanation
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Prologue: An Angel Passes
• 1: A City down the Hill
• 2: Preferring a Blur
• 3: Remembering Empires
• 4: Only the Band Plays On
• 5: Origins of a Civic Style
• 6: Sad Questions of Oneself
• 7: Trains on the Quays
• 8: One Night at the Risiera
• 9: Borgello, Kofric, Slokovich and Blotz
• 10: The Nonsense of Nationality
• 11: Love and Lust
• 12: The Wild Side
• 13: The Biplane and the Steamer
• 14: What’s It For?
• 15: After My Time
• 16: The Capital of Nowhere
• Epilogue: Across My Grave
• Index
• About the Author
• Further praise for Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere:
• By the Same Author
• Copyright