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245 00 Remarkable diaries :|bthe world's greatest diaries,
journals, notebooks, and letters /|cforeword, Professor
Kate Williams ; contributors, R.G. Grant, Andrew Humphreys,
Esther Ripley, and Iain Zaczek.
250 First American edition.
264 1 New York, NY :|bDK Publishing,|c2020.
264 4 |c©2020
300 256 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c31 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Includes index.
505 0 Introduction -- Chapter 1. Before 1500 -- In the Age of
Pharaohs: Merer -- Letters from Imperial Rome: Pliny the
Younger -- Travels in China: Ennin -- A Tale of Court Life
: Murasaki Shikibu -- A Godly Life: Margery Kempe -- A
Citizen's View: Luca Landucci -- Notebooks of a Genius:
Leonardo da Vinci -- Directory -- Chapter 2. 1500-1700 --
Magellan's Voyage: Antonio Pigafetta -- A Testament of War
: Yi Sun-shin -- A Soldier's Tale: Peter Hagendorf -- A
Pilgrim's Journal: William Bradford -- Into the Unknown:
Abel Janszoon Tasman -- Adventures at Sea: Edward Barlow -
- A Private Eye: Samuel Pepys -- The Kangxi Emperor's
Diary: Various scribes -- Letters of a Devoted Mother:
Madame de Sévigné -- A Poet's Journey: Matsuo Bashō -- At
the Court of the Sun King: Duc de Saint-Simon -- Directory
-- Chapter 3. 1700-1800 -- A Journey to Lapland: Carl
Linnaeus -- Life in Pondicherry: Ananda Ranga Pillai --
Recording a Revolution: Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker --
Adventures in London: James Boswell -- The Voyages of
Captain Cook: James Cook -- The Italian Notebook:
Francisco José de Goya -- The Kingdom of Bone: Sultan
Ahmad al-Salih -- A Musical Catalogue: Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart -- A Poet's Discovery of Italy: Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe -- Life in the Colonies: Ralph Clark -- Into South
America: Alexander von Humboldt -- Directory -- Chapter
4. 1800-1860 -- The Grasmere Journals: Dorothy Wordsworth
-- A Route to the Pacific: Lewis and Clark -- Gentleman
Jack: Anne Lister -- Diary of a Slave: Michael Shiner -- A
Voyage Around the World: Rose de Saulces de Freycinet --
An Artist's Journal: Eugène Delacroix -- A Writer in
Crisis: Sir Walter Scott -- The Voyage of the Beagle:
Charles Darwin -- A Royal Life: Queen Victoria --
Existential Journals: Søren Kierkegaard -- A Victorian
Sage: John Ruskin -- The Roe Head Journal: Charlotte
Brontë -- The Chronicler of Nature: Henry David Thoreau --
A Musical Marriage: Robert and Clara Schumann -- A
Lifetime's Thoughts: Leo Tolstoy -- In the Amazon: Henry
Bates -- Literary Gossip in Paris: The Goncourt brothers -
- Directory
505 0 Chapter 5. 1860-1900 -- A Dixie Diary: Mary Chesnut --
Into the Wilderness: John Muir -- A View from the Vicarage
: Francis Kilvert -- An Artist's Letters: Vincent van Gogh
-- The Manuscript of Reus: Antoni Gaudí -- The Work of a
Social Reformer: Beatrice Webb -- A Whaling Diary: Arthur
Conan Doyle -- Learning to Write: Beatrix Potter -- An
Inventor on Vacation: Thomas Alva Edison -- A Social
Observer: Jules Renard -- Noa Noa: Paul Gauguin -- On
Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus -- A Nomad in the Sahara:
Isabelle Eberhardt -- Radioactive Notebooks: Marie Curie -
- Directory -- Chapter 6. 1900-1940 -- Writing for
Herself: Virginia Woolf -- Taking a Line for a Walk: Paul
Klee -- A Crusader for Social Justice: Käthe Kollwitz -- A
Fatal Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott -- Loneliness and
Angst: Franz Kafka -- The Red Book: Carl Gustav Jung -- A
Conscript in the Great War: Louis Barthas -- A Poet in the
Trenches: Siegfried Sassoon -- The Voice of Catalonia:
Josep Pla -- Finding Tutankhamun: Howard Carter -- In
Emotional Turmoil: Anaïs Nin -- Notes on Hard Times:
George Orwell -- The Impossibility of Being: Albert Camus
-- Directory -- Chapter 7. 1940-present -- The Diary of a
Young Girl: Anne Frank -- Exploring the Inner Self: Frida
Kahlo -- Surviving Hiroshima: Michihiko Hachiya -- A
Troubled Genius: Sylvia Plath -- Life in a Favela:
Carolina Maria de Jesus -- The Bolivian Diary: Ernesto
"Che" Guevara -- A Maverick's Notes: Derek Jarman --
Directory.
520 Arranged chronologically, this book traces the compelling
history of the diary, from ancient times to the present.
You'll go inside the pages of the world's greatest diaries,
journals, notebooks, and letters. Discover what it was
like to build a pyramid, travel deep 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. --
adapted from jacket
650 0 Diaries|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 Diarists|xHistory.
650 7 Diarists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00892681
650 7 Diaries.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00892657
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 Creative nonfiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919909
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 Creative nonfiction.|2lcgft
700 1 Williams, Kate,|d1974-|ewriter of foreword.
700 1 Grant, R. G.,|econtributor.
700 1 Humphreys, Andrew,|d1970-|econtributor.
700 1 Ripley, Esther,|econtributor.
700 1 Zaczek, Iain,|econtributor.
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