Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters - Hardcover

$30.00

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters - Hardcover

Name: Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters - Hardcover
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9780744020434
Price: 30.00 USD
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by DK

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Book Overview

Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages.

Bringing together historical and literary diaries, artists' sketchbooks, explorers' journals, and scientists' notebooks, Remarkable Diaries provides an intimate insight into the lives and thoughts of some of the most interesting people of the last two thousand years. Discover what it was like to build a pyramid, sail the seas with Magellan, travel into the heart of Africa, or serve on the Western Front. Find out how writers and artists planned their masterpieces, and how scientists developed their groundbreaking theories.

Arranged chronologically, Remarkable Diaries takes you into the pages of the world's greatest diaries, notebooks, and letters, including those of Samuel Pepys, Henry-David Thoreau, the Goncourt brothers, Virginia Woolf, and Anne Frank. Stunning reproductions of the original notebooks and manuscripts are complemented by extracts and quotations, and illustrated features set the diaries in their cultural and historical context.

Essential reading for everyone who is passionate about history and literature, Remarkable Diaries provides a fascinating insight into the everyday lives, thoughts, and feelings of men and women through the centuries.

ISBN	9780744020434
Author	DK
Publisher	DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Genre	Biography and Literature
Format	Hardcover
Published	September 2020
Language	ENG- English
Pages	256
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print