Walking Pepys's London - Jacky Colliss Harvey

Samuel Pepys walked round London for miles. The 2 miles to Whitehall from his house near the Tower ofLondon was accomplished on an almost daily basis, and so many of his professional conversations took placewhilst walking that the streets became for him an alternative to his office.

WithWalking Pepys's London, the reader will come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streetsfrom the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was almost as much a character in Pepys's life as his familyor friends, and the book draws many parallels between his experience of 17th-century London and the lives ofLondoners today. Colliss Harvey's new book reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of the past, bringing geography, biography and history into one.

Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity,Walking Pepys's Londonis an unmissable exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.