Salter, Colin 1957- creator author. text Biographies. enk 2025 2025 monographic eng

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224 pages : colour illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. 100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events introduces us to the world's greatest diarists. Including the historical journals of Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank; snapshots of culture in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain; and windows into the past from Queen Victoria and John Adams. These published journals present a unique insight into their time and place, featuring a diverse range of accounts from all over the world. Discover the doomed log of Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and the philandering antics of Samuel Pepys: as well as the less well-known diary of Jakob Walter, a foot soldier who gave a vivid insight into the Napoleonic wars, or Mary Chesnut,a privileged planter's wife in South Carolina, who chronicled the South's decline in the Civil War. adult Colin Salter. Includes index. Diarists Anecdotes Diaries History and criticism Diarists Biography World history Diaries 909 SAL 9780008562106 MBIP 260702 20260702104340.0 000138311129 eng