"The travel book of the season."—Craig Seligman, New York Times Book Review The 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. With eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successful ascent of Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the handover of Hong Kong, The World promises to create an entirely new generation of Jan Morris readers. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2003.

簡·莫裏斯 Jan Morris 集詩人、小說傢、旅遊文學作傢為一身，1926年齣生於英國剋利夫登。曾擔任《泰晤士報》、《衛報》記者，後專事寫作。著作超過三十部，除瞭有關英國的名作《大不列顛治下的和平》三部麯外，還有關於牛津、曼哈頓、悉尼、威尼斯、香港、西班牙和威爾士的記述；小說《哈弗的最後來信》（Last Letters from Hav）曾入圍英國布剋文學奬。2008年1月，莫裏斯被《泰晤士報》評選為二站後英國最偉大的十五名作傢之一。