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- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
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A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil.Oscar Wilde once “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events introduces us to the world’s greatest diarists, whose published journals offer a unique insight into their time and place. Dive into a diverse range of accounts from all over the world. While everyone has heard of the diary of Anne Frank, the doomed log of Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and the philandering antics of Samuel far fewer have discovered the diaries of Jakob Walter, a foot soldier who gave a vivid insight into the Napoleonic wars, or Mary Chesnut, a privileged planter’s wife in South Carolina, who chronicled the South’s decline in the Civil War.Includes diaries Kurt Cobain, Samuel Pepys, Lady Anne Clifford, John Adams, Eliza Fay, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Allen Ginsburg, Anne Lister, George Sand, Queen Victoria, Andy Warhol, Virigina Woolf, Frida Kahlo and more!
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100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events, Colin Salter
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2025
- Rilegatura
- (Copertina rigida)
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- Titolo
- 100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
- Sottotitolo
- A journey through first person accounts and exciting stories which detailed historical events
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Colin Salter
- Editore
- Pavilion Books
- Pubblicato
- 2025
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0008562105
- ISBN13
- 9780008562106
- Serie
- Categoria
- Tag
- Tema stórico, Raccolte, antologie, Narrativa contemporanea, Guerre, Memorie, Cultura e Società, Tempi antichi, Scrittura, Opere Complete, Diari, Viaggio nel tempo, Ricerca, Genealogia, albero genealogico, Libri più venduti, Veleni, avvelenamenti, Antichità, Mente umana, Diritto d'Autore, Artista donna, Discorso e Comunicazione, Interessante, Prospettiva, Charles Darwin
- Descrizione
- A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil.Oscar Wilde once “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events introduces us to the world’s greatest diarists, whose published journals offer a unique insight into their time and place. Dive into a diverse range of accounts from all over the world. While everyone has heard of the diary of Anne Frank, the doomed log of Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and the philandering antics of Samuel far fewer have discovered the diaries of Jakob Walter, a foot soldier who gave a vivid insight into the Napoleonic wars, or Mary Chesnut, a privileged planter’s wife in South Carolina, who chronicled the South’s decline in the Civil War.Includes diaries Kurt Cobain, Samuel Pepys, Lady Anne Clifford, John Adams, Eliza Fay, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Allen Ginsburg, Anne Lister, George Sand, Queen Victoria, Andy Warhol, Virigina Woolf, Frida Kahlo and more!