{"product_id":"100-diaries-that-chronicled-world-events-hardcover","title":"100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColin Salter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOscar Wilde once wrote \u003cem\u003e\"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.\" \u003c\/em\u003eThis book is your opportunity to discover a compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the truly evil. \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e100 Diaries that Chronicled World Event\u003c\/em\u003es 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eColin Salter\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of nine books in Pavilion's \u003cem\u003e100s\u003c\/em\u003e series, each telling the history of the world as recorded by humankind's use of words in books, speeches, letters and now diaries. His latest book \u003cem\u003eThe History Trees\u003c\/em\u003e takes a different perspective on history, as seen through its silent witnesses - the trees which have lived through major human events. Colin also writes on science history, most recently in \u003cem\u003eThe Anatomists' Library \u003c\/em\u003e(Quarto), and on travel, notably in his trilogy of \u003cem\u003eRemarkable Road Trips, Bicycle Rides\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTreks\u003c\/em\u003e (Pavilion). Colin has kept a diary since the age of sixteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 7.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44826899087462,"sku":"9780008562106","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/OiNblufLgJ9780008562106.webp?v=1772002436","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/100-diaries-that-chronicled-world-events-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}