Opinion: Remembering Jan Morris, Historian And Writer
NPR's Scott Simon remembers historian and travel writer Jan Morris, who died Friday at age 94.
by Scott Simon
Nov 21, 2020
2 minutes
To open a book by Jan Morris is like popping the cork on a bottle of champagne: pop, fizz, then bubbles of delight.
She climbed with Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on Mt. Everest, covered wars across deserts, and wrote dozens of books, including the
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