Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Jan Morris provided the introduction for the 2009 edition publiJan Morrisd by Ian Fleming Publications. They divorced later but remained together and on 14 May 2008 were legally reunited when they formally entered into a civil partnership. Jan Morris CBE (born James Humphrey Morris 2 October 1926 Clevedon Somerset England) is a Welsh historian author and travel writer.

Jan Morris CBE (born James Humphrey Morris 2 October 1926 Clevedon Somerset England) is a Welsh historian author and travel writer. She is a transsexual woman and was publiJan Morrisd under her birth name until 1972 when Jan Morris transitioned from living as male to living as female. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968-78) a history of the British Empire and for portraits of cities notably Oxford Venice Trieste Hong Kong and New York City.