{"product_id":"9780008562106-100-diaries-that-chronicled-world-events","title":"100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events","description":"\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde once wrote  \"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.\"  This 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.    100 Diaries that Chronicled World Event s 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. These 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","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48746297819355,"sku":"9780008562106","price":22.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4ff4996a-261a-45cb-b554-0b3bf32d0159_a7bfd8eb-810d-44a8-bf90-c80890c7083a.jpg?v=1777990973","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780008562106-100-diaries-that-chronicled-world-events","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}