Heavens Command, Jan Morris
Heavens Command, Jan Morris
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Heaven’s Command

Author: Jan Morris

Narrator: Roy McMillan

Abridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 03/28/2011


Synopsis

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. Heaven’s Command, the first volume, takes us from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, moving effortlessly across the Empire, from the shores of England to Fiji, Zululand, the Canadian prairies and beyond. Truly gripping history.

About Jan Morris

Born in 1926, Jan Morris lived and wrote as James Morris until 1972. She resides with her partner, Elizabeth Morris, in northwest Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her many books include In My Mind's Eye, Coronation Everest, and the Pax Britannica Trilogy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on November 12, 2014

We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too! INNOCENTS ABROAD! This is history told through a patchwork of breezy anecdotes — that might not even fit together well enough, but still achieves the objective remarkably well. The na......more

Goodreads review by Lark on July 19, 2021

Heaven's Command is 'History of the British Empire as Saucy Anecdote' and I loved it. I'm in the middle of a major downsizing in my house and it made the housework much more enjoyable to be listening along to this audiobook, which reads like an adventure story. There is a bit of theorizing in the op......more

Goodreads review by Randall on October 29, 2023

This book is about the British Empire during Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign (1819- 1901). Useful bits Jan put in this book: “in 1837 it still took three days to travel from London to Ireland.” It took three months to get to Bombay and eight months to Sydney. In those days, Malaria was “often” treate......more

Goodreads review by Ozymandias on January 05, 2023

Ripping Yarns This is a somewhat difficult book to assess. It is a book started shortly after the collapse of the British Empire (here defined as the Suez Crisis of 1956) written with hindsight from the narrow perspective of an idealistic and relatively liberal English subject. While ambivalent in ma......more

Goodreads review by Melora on July 10, 2011

This was fantastic! Never dull, and the author made connections between historical personalities, movements, etc. that I hadn't seen before. I can hardly wait to get the next in the series!......more