Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and cattle of a working Welsh farm.

She regards this modest building not only as a reflection of herself and her life, but also as epitomizing the small and complex country of Wales, which has defied the world for centuries to preserve its own identity. Morris brilliantly meditates on the beams and stone walls of the house, its jumbled contents, its sounds and smells, its memories and inhabitants, and finally discovers the profoundest meanings of Welshness.

珍．莫里斯（Jan Morris）

珍．莫里斯出生於英國威爾斯。她在一九七二年未進行變性手術以前，身分是詹姆斯．莫里斯（James Morris）。

曾擔任《泰晤士報》與《衛報》記者，並以參與過一九五三年的聖母峰探險而聞名。在《衛報》工作了一段時間之後，她便專事寫作。

她的著作超過三十部，包括小說、歷史與旅行文學作品。除了有關大英帝國的名作《大不列顛治下的和平》（Pax Britannica）三部曲外，還有關於牛津、曼哈頓、雪梨、香港、西班牙和威爾斯的記述，二本自傳式著作、六冊旅遊散文集；小說《哈弗的最後來信》（Last letters from Hav）曾入選英國布克文學獎（Booker Prize）。此外，她編輯過《牛津之書》（Oxford Book of Oxford）和維吉妮亞．吳爾芙（Virginia Woolf）的旅行書寫作品。

她是皇家文學學會（the Royal Society of Literature）的會員，並獲頒大英帝國勳章（OBE），也是威爾斯大學榮譽文學博士。她的最新著作是她自稱為封筆之作的《的港和不知名之地的意義》（Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere）。