title: Contact!: A Book of Encounters
author:  Jan Morris 
description: Recognized as a major contemporary travel writer, Morris, in the course of her profession/avocation, has explored all four corners of the globeno exaggeration. Her latest book is a collection of short takes, each one running only one to three paragraphs in length. In introductory comments, the author, from Wales, observes that in a lifetime of travel and literature, I have written relatively little about people. Her new book, then, makes amends, offering glimpses of people encountered across half a century and forty-odd books. The emphasis on individuals rather than destinations results in a delightfully idiosyncratic kaleidoscope: small portraits rendered in colorful and not always adulatory prose. Visiting the current occupant of Longwood, a distinctive octagon-shaped mansion in Natchez, Louisiana, she is treated to a feast of southern fried chicken. Attending a Paris fashion show, however, was not so positive. She sat among the condescending New York buyers and unbelievably ugly princesses of American fashion journalism. Ouch! --Brad Hooper
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  Ducal Encounters Series 3 Book 5
  
  
  
  
  
  Supporting the Duke
  
  
  
  
  
  Wendy Soliman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Ducal Encounters Series 3 Book 5
  
  
  Supporting the Duke
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Wendy Soliman 2018
  
  
  
  
  
  Edited by Perry Iles
  
  
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