Samuel Pepys walked round London for miles. The 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 streetsfrom the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was almost as much a character in Pepys's life as his familyor friends,and the book draws many parallels between his experience of 17th-century London and the lives ofLondoners 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.
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Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the BookhausISBN: 9781909961821Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'... 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
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