Walking Pepys's London
Walking Pepys's London 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…
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Walking Pepys's London
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. 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. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis.
Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and 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.
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