Gone …were the long star – lit nights beneath the Bedouin tents, in which the English man deluded himself that his friendship with the Arab was something special…
– Jan Morris, 1955. [ p 26 Ariel A Literary life of Jan Morris by Derek Jones, 2016]
It is a joy to read the prose of Jan Morris.
He, now she has a wonderful mastery of the English language. Combined with the beauty of the countries she travelled to, there are no other writers presently alive who can match her in the category of travel writing.
Here are 2 books I bought last Saturday at Kinokuniya KLCC. Sultan in Oman was published in 1957. Battleship Yamato in 2018.
