Walking Pepys's London

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In Walking Pepys's London, you are taken on a fascinating journey through the streets of 17th-century London as navigated by the renowned diarist Samuel Pepys. The book blends vivid historical narrative with Pepys's own observations, capturing the vibrant life and significant events of the city during his time, all while offering a unique perspective on the era's culture and society.
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If you're fascinated by historical London and enjoy walking through its storied streets, this book offers a captivating journey back to the vibrant world of the 17th century. You might enjoy immersing yourself in the detailed exploration of a city's past, retracing the footsteps of one of its most famous diarists.

Walking Pepys's London

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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Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London.

Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office.

With Walking Pepys’s London, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today.

Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. Full of fascinating details, Walking Pepys’s London is a sensitive exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

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Walking Pepys's London is praised for allowing readers to immerse themselves in Samuel Pepys's world, as noted by The Telegraph. The Times Literary Supplement commends its crisp writing, clear directions, and usable maps, recommending it particularly for Pepys enthusiasts.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781909961821

Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 5 black&white maps

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 220

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About the Author

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.