An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one
of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel 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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