Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest - Tapa blanda

'A little jewel-box of a book' - The Spectator Abraham Lincoln, they say, has been more written about than anyone else except Jesus Christ, but this book is different. It presents Lincoln as seen by a foreigner. Jan Morris has been everywhere Lincoln went, from his birth-place in Kentucky via Springfield and Gettysburg to his death-room in Washington D.C., and the book reveals as much about her own evolving responses as it does about Lincoln's developing character. She ends the book a loving admirer - not so much of President Abraham Lincoln, politician and moulder of all our histories, but of Father Abraham, a man of poignant kindness and an artist.

Jan Morris is an Honorary D.Litt. of the universities of Wales and Glamorgan, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary FRIBA. Her other books include studies of Venice, Oxford, Spain and, most recently, Wales. She divides her time between her home in Wales and travel abroad.