{"product_id":"among-the-cities","title":"Among the Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Years and years ago, observing that nobody in the history of man had ever seen and described the entire urban world, I resolved to do it myself ...'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was thirty years later, standing in the great square in Beijing, that Jan Morris realized that she had achieved her extraordinary ambition. \u003cb\u003eAmong the Cities\u003c\/b\u003e (1985) is a magnificent collection which presents her personal selection of travel pieces, with definitive evocations of places as different as Alexandria and Bath, Warsaw and Wyoming. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether she is describing Beirut before the lights went out, the cloying charms of Vienna ('no place for a Welsh republican'), the dream-world of Kashmir or the 'impending euphoria of Rio de Janeiro, Jan Morris never leaves us in doubt that she is one of the greatest travel writers - and one of the greatest prose writers - of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I don't think there is a writer alive who has Jan Morris's serenity or strength.' Paul Theroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'She can even impart a place's smell.' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243590963544,"sku":"9780571247264","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571247264.jpg?v=1777704329","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/among-the-cities","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}