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Title: Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress by James, Morris, Jan Morris ISBN: 0-15-640006-5 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Trilogy is a wonderful account of the British Empire
Comment: Jan Morris is a fascinating personality. She originally was a he, and he was a guardsman in the British army, an officer from a good family. He left the service, became a historian, and then went to Denmark or wherever, and came back a she. She now writes unusual, affecting, eccentric, entertaining books that are terribly British and a bit disorganized. The Pax Brittanica trilogy is her life's work, near enough, though she's done other books that are very good. This one, however, is three volumes long, quite involved and very detailed. The series includes Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets. The first generally deals with the Empire in the 1840s on, the second follows things through the thirties, and the third follows the empire through its disbandment.
As I said, Morris is eccentric. This means that though the books are sort of chronological, they aren't exactly sorted the way you would expect, and this isn't really a history of the empire or the era. Instead, it's an anecdotal collection of tales, incidents, and sketches, marvelously told. Sort of like the difference between going through a cafeteria once and a sumptuous buffet where you go back and forth, taking time with what you enjoy. I thoroughly enjoyed the books, though I would hesitate to recommend them to someone who wasn't clear on either geography, or at least some basic history of the British Empire. Since this isn't either of those, you need them to understand what she's talking about occasionally.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent
Comment: I have always wondered how the British managed to gain their empire and, more importantly, how they were able to ignore certain facts staring them straight in the eye -- that other peoples and races have achieved great cultural accomplishments and are fully as human as the British. How could the British have come to regard the Zulu and other Africans as being, more or less, animals ?
The blindness of great empires and their makers is always fascinating.
James Morris is a magnificent writer. The portraits he paints of the people involved in this great play of destiny are vivid. From event to event, the book reads like an endlessly absorbing epic.
Truly great writing about a fascinating story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great writing. Vivid portraits. Magnificient narratives.
Comment: I just finished this magnificient volume. Morris has surely written a masterpiece. Many a time I have felt transfigured to 19th century India or sensed the wind on the African veld. The writing is stupendous. The portraits of characters just stunning. Alas! My only quibble is no pictures. NO PICTURES!!!! I have the Harcourt Brace publication and there are no pictures. Oh how I would like to see what Sleeman looked like! Nonetheless well worth the price.
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Title: Farewell The Trumpets : An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris ISBN: 0156302861 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 19 May, 1980 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire by James, Morris, Jan Morris ISBN: 0156714663 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1980 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Natives of My Person (Ann Arbor Paperbacks Series) by George Lamming ISBN: 0472064673 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley ISBN: 0792266382 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers ofAnarchy by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0679751238 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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