Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Notebooks, and Letters Explored and Explained

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Sep 2020 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Dugald Bruce Lockhart

About this audiobook

Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages.

Remarkable Diaries traces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary diaries, artists' sketchbooks, explorers' journals, and scientists' notebooks. Discover what is was life to build a pyramid, sail the seas with Magellan, travel into the heart of Africa, or serve on the Western Front. Find out how writers and artists planned their masterpieces and how scientists developed their groundbreaking theories.

Remarkable Diaries explores the world's greatest diaries and notebooks, including those of Samuel Pepys, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, and Anne Frank. Including key extracts and close-ups of important details, featured text provides additional biographical information and set the works in their cultural and historical context.

Essential listening for everyone who is passionate about history and literature, the audiobook of Great Diaries provides an intimate insight into the lives and thoughts of some of the most interesting people of the last two thousand years.

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About the author

Professor Kate Williams is an author, historian, and broadcaster. She has written five history books, including England's Mistress and Rival Queens, and four historical novels. She is a regular on television and radio, presenting her own shows including The Stuarts, Inside Versailles, and Restoration Home, and discussing social history, royal history, and politics, and culture on shows such as Newsnight. CNN's royal historian, she is a Professor of History at the University of Reading and gives lectures across the world.