Johns presents the life and works of this great historian and travel writer. 'Johns is good at shedding light on Morris's inimitable, evocative, highly descriptive style' Nigel Farndale, }The Times Derek Johns was Jan Morris's literary agent for twenty years, and Ariel is a literary life, an appreciation of the work and achievements of someone who besides being a delightful writer is known to many as a generous, affectionate, witty and irreverent friend.