Walking Pepys's London

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Haus
27 December 2022

Biography: literary; Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London.

Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office.

With Walking Pepys’s London, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. Full of fascinating details, Walking Pepys’s London is a sensitive exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

Imprint: Haus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781909961821
ISBN 10: 1909961825
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 27 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacky Collis 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.

Reviews for Walking Pepys's London

'... invites us to step into Pepys's shoes' The Telegraph; 'The writing is crisp, the directions are clear, the maps are usable ... it is as good a book of its kind as one could hope for, and I urge anyone with a fondness for Pepys to buy it.'Times Literary Supplement