Book ID: CBB930897484

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn (2017)

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Willes, Margaret (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 384
Language: English

An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English historySamuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times.Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.

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Authors & Contributors
Maley, John
Dowdy, F. Andrew
Bellamy, Liz
Galbraith, David Ian
Chambers, D. D. C.
Wuebben, Daniel
Concepts
Science and culture
Travel; exploration
Biographies
Science and literature
Curiosities and wonders
Horticulture
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
Renaissance
20th century, early
Places
England
Europe
Great Britain
Midwestern states (U.S.)
Oklahoma (U.S.)
London (England)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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