Walking Pepys's London

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-913368-28-9
Verlag: Haus Pub.

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 109 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Armchair Traveller

In effect, this book will be a 17th-century version of doing ‘the knowledge’ for a London cab-driver today. As a man who knew his way around the city’s streets better than many, it will also present Pepys as a 17th-century version of the Parisian flaneur. It is a fascinating exploration of his relationship with London, almost as if the city were as much a character in his life as his family, or patrons, or friends (as indeed it was), and draw as many parallels as it can between Pepys’ experience of living in the 17th-century city and those of Londoners living in and walking the streets of the city today. Lastly, it shows Pepys’s London as vividly alive for the reader or walker of today as possible – reconstructing the sensory and emotional experience of 17th-century London by bringing geography, biography and history into one.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colliss Harvey, Jacky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie

Über Autor(innen)

Colliss Harvey, Jacky
JACKY COLLISS HARVEY is a writer and editor. She has worked in museum publishing for the past 20 years and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks in both the UK and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. She is the author of the bestseller RED: A History of the Redhead and most recently The Animal’s Companion.

JACKY COLLISS HARVEY is a writer and editor. She has worked in museum publishing for the past 20 years and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks in both the UK and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. She is the author of the bestseller RED: A History of the Redhead and most recently The Animal’s Companion.