Walking Pepys's London

Walking Pepys's London
Jacky Colliss Harvey
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 220pg
2 Jun 2022 UK
9781909961821
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Samuel Pepys walked round London for miles. The 21/2 miles to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London was accomplished on an almost daily basis, and so many of his professional conversations took place whilst walking that the streets became for him an alternative to his office. With Walking Pepys' s London, the reader will come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was almost as much a character in Pepys' s life as his family or friends, and the book draws many parallels between his experience of 17th-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Colliss Harvey' s new book reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of the past, bringing geography, biography and history into one. Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity, Walking Pepys' s London is an unmissable exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.
' . . . invites us to step into Pepys' s shoes' The Telegraph; ' The writing is crisp, the directions are clear, the maps are usable . . . it is as good a book of its kind as one could hope for, and I urge anyone with a fondness for Pepys to buy it. ' Times Literary Supplement
Jacky Collis Harvey is a writer and editor. She has worked in museum publishing for the past 20 years and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks in both the UK and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. She is the author of the bestseller RED: A History of the Redhead and most recently The Animal' s Companion.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781909961821
Published: 2 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 220

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