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The World: Travels 1950-2000

by Jan Morris · 2003

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Ranging from Manhattan to Venice, and Oxford to the Middle East, this portrait of the 20th-century contains Jan Morris's eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successful ascent of Everest, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the historic Eichmann trial.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 458 pages

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