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003    OCoLC 
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008    200903t20202020nyua          001 0 eng d 
019    1130640668|a1232488666 
020    9780744020434|q(hardcover) 
020    0744020433|q(hardcover) 
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050  4 PN4390|b.R46 2020 
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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. 
994    C0|bCKE 
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