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Remarkable diaries: the world's greatest diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Table of Contents
From the Book - First American edition.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Contributors
Grant, R. G. contributor
Humphreys, Andrew,1970- contributor
Ripley, Esther contributor
Williams, Kate,1974- writer of foreword
Zaczek, Iain contributor
Humphreys, Andrew,1970- contributor
Ripley, Esther contributor
Williams, Kate,1974- writer of foreword
Zaczek, Iain contributor
ISBN
9780744020434
