Fisher's Face

by JanMorris (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $12.86

  Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan Morris has been haunted by his face - with its startling combination of the suave, the sneering and the self-amused. This evocation is both biography and a love letter, a perfect expression of her passionate interest in mavericks and outsiders, in travel, ships and the glorious pageantry of the British Empire in its prime.