100 diaries that chronicled world events Colin Salter.

By:

Salter, Colin, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780008562106

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies.

DDC classification:

23 909 SAL

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Perpustakaan MBIP Medini General Stacks	Non-Fiction book	909 SAL 2025 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00001759

Includes index.

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.

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