Adam Nicolson: 10 books
Why Homer Matters
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
"Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…and his excitement is contagious."—James Wood, The New Yorker
Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the...
by Adam Nicolson
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson’s adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot...
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
“A charming portrait of an ancient and beautiful house in Kent [and] a poignant and amusing portrait of the English class system.” —Simon Winchester
From lavish palace for Elizabethan nobles to dreary jailhouse for eighteenth-century prisoners of war, from well-manicured country house...
The Seabird's Cry
The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in...
The Making of Poetry
Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before
June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched...
Quarrel with the King
The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650—Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance,...
Seize the Fire
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero?...
El eterno viaje
Cómo vivir con Homero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Adam Nicolson nos brinda la oportunidad de conocer a un Homero de nuestro tiempo, un sabio cercano que, sentado junto a nosotros y charlando amistosamente, nos aconseja e interpela. Se trata de una obra única para adentrarse en la figura del gran poeta griego: con un tono próximo, alejado de toda...
God's Secretaries
The Making of the King James Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn...
by Homer, Adam Nicolson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseus’s encounters with such obstacles...