EAN: 9780241412947

GREAT DIARIES

Travel back in time and share the experience of everyday thoughts and great moments in history
in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages.    Great Diaries traces the
history of the diary from ancient times to the present day  bringing together more than 80
historical and literary diaries  artists' sketchbooks  explorers' journals  and scientists'
notebooks. 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.   Great
Diaries takes you into the pages of the world's greatest diaries and notebooks  including those
of Samuel Pepys  Charles Darwin  Henry-David Thoreau  the Goncourt brothers  Virginia Woolf 
and Anne Frank  and shows you what they looked like. Stunning images of the original notebooks
and manuscripts are complemented by key extracts and close-ups of important details. Feature
boxes provide additional biographical information and set the works in their cultural and
historical context.  Essential reading for everyone who is passionate about history and
literature  Great Diaries provides an intimate insight into the lives and thoughts of some of
the most interesting people of the last 2 000 years.

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