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The most famous inner monologue of a transgender person, Jan Morris, Britain's greatest post-war writer. This book is about a dispute in the author's life, and some parts of it are heartbreaking. She is optimistic by nature and unwilling to self-analyze. She is very lucky in other aspects. She writes with great restraint about her inner feelings of being unable to identify with her identity and gender. Most of the abbreviations in the book are to avoid causing pain to others, and occasionally to avoid making the author regret. Things that are avoided are all for aesthetic reasons.

"The British Empire Trilogy" narrates the British history from Queen Victoria's accession to the throne to Churchill's death in a huge space. The narrative style is brilliant and vivid, involving different continents, various characters and multiple wars. Supplemented by the author's field trips, it reproduces the long process of the British Empire from its rise to its decline. The first part, "Manifest Destiny" traces the history from Victoria's accession to the British Empire's expansion and aggression in 1897. It records the Kabul rout, the Indian Mutiny, the Zulu War, the Ashanti War, the conflict with the Boers and other wars. It also records the abolition of the slave trade, Australia Major events such as the demise of the indigenous people, the exploration of the Nile, the Great Famine in Ireland, the Universal Exposition, and the Irish Home Rule Movement demonstrate the social changes and technological development in Britain in the second half of the 19th century, as well as the social landscape of different regions in Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania from the perspective of the colonists.