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Great Diaries
- The world's most remarkable diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters
Af: DK
Engelsk Hardback
Great Diaries
- The world's most remarkable diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters
Af: DK
Engelsk Hardback

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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.





Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780241412947
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0241412943
Udg. Dato:
3 sep 2020
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
307mm
Højde:
261mm
Forlag:
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Oplagsdato:
3 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
DK
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