John Aubrey av Ruth Scurr

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<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD</p><p><b>This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.</b></p><p>You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography.</p><p>With all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey¿s own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other.</p><p><b>''A game-changer in the world of biography'' Mary Beard</b></p><p><b>''Ingenious'' Hilary Mantel</b></p><p><b>''Irresistible'' Philip Pullman</b></p>