Twenty-nine-year-old, independent, and self-assured cambridge history professor Emma d'eresby has one obsession in life: the curious journal of a seventeenth-century englishman, a portion of which was left to her by her ...Twenty-nine-year-old, independent, and self-assured cambridge history professor Emma d'eresby has one obsession in life: the curious journal of a seventeenth-century englishman, a portion of which was left to her by her late grandfather.