The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
by Margaret Willes
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- ISBN 10
- 0300221398
- ISBN 13
- 9780300221398
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Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover with maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. New dust jacket. 8vo.(9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Decorative endpapers. B&W and color photo plates throughout the text. Includes an appendix, endnotes, selected bibliography, and an index. xx, 282 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests--diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books--and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests--diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books--and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Title
- The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
- Author
- Margaret Willes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300221398
- ISBN 13
- 9780300221398
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Diary, British History, World History,
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