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The world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
Category: History: Europe & England: 17th C
Author: Margaret Willes
Copyright/published Year: 2017 by Yale Univ Press
ISBN: 0300221398
Binding: hardcover
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.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
'like new' used copy.
Condition Description
Very lightly read copy. Clean and unmarked. No remainder marks.
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