Brief Lives

John Aubrey was born in 1626. At the age of 26 he inherited a family estateencumbered with debt and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on heled a soc... » 

John Aubrey was born in 1626. At the age of 26 he inherited a family estateencumbered with debt and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on heled a sociable rootless existence. At his death in 1697 he left a mass ofnotes and manuscripts. This book reproduces his words as closely as possibleand introduces Aubrey and his world. «