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57 produkter
Mighty Dead
Why Homer Matters
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) ‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer …
Sissinghurst
An Unfinished History
Häftad, 2009
172 kr
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A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its …
Sea Room
Häftad, 2002
141 kr
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson.Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a …
Atlantic Britain
The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship
Häftad, 2004
142 kr
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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 …
Men of Honour
Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero
Häftad, 2006
171 kr
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An unforgettable look at the contradictions of heroism, as embodied by Horatio Nelson and as tested by the battle of Trafalgar. Adam Nicolson looks at the variety of qualities – ruthlessness, bravery, kindness, cruelty – that combined in both Nelson and his troops to carry that fateful …
Arcadia
England and the Dream of Perfection
Häftad, 2009
171 kr
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A fascinating depiction from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation.Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia, which now seems …
Gentry
Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class
Häftad, 2012
176 kr
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Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of …
Gentry
Stories of the English
E-bok, 2011
120 kr
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Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of …
Mighty Dead
Why Homer Matters
E-bok, 2014
88 kr
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Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant?Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel …
Smell of Summer Grass
Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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The Smell of Summer Grass is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven.Adam Nicolson was determined …
Men of Honour
Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue.Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth …
Arcadia
England and the Dream of Perfection (Text Only)
E-bok, 2017
100 kr
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This ebook does not include illustrations.A fascinating depiction from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation.Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way …
Power and Glory
Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible (Text Only)
E-bok, 2017
88 kr
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible.James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by …
Sea Room
E-bok, 2014
88 kr
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson.Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a …
Sissinghurst
An Unfinished History (Text Only)
E-bok, 2015
120 kr
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A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what …
Atlantic Britain
The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship
E-bok, 2010
88 kr
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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 …
When God Spoke English
The Making of the King James Bible
Häftad, 2011
133 kr
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible.James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by …
Gentry
Stories of the English
Ljudbok, 2011
240 kr
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Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable.We may well be ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, but for …
Smell of Summer Grass
Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill
Häftad, 2015
165 kr
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The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven.Without knowing one end of a hay baler from the other, Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven, …
Making of Poetry
Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
E-bok, 2019
102 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 ‘This is a book of wonders’ Sunday Times ‘Spellbinding and intelligent’ Financial Times ‘Extraordinary and engrossing’ Spectator It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam …
Making of Poetry
Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Häftad, 2020
165 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 ‘This is a book of wonders’ Sunday Times ‘Spellbinding and intelligent’ Financial Times ‘Extraordinary and engrossing’ Spectator It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam …
Mighty Dead
Why Homer Matters
Ljudbok, 2015
246 kr
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Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New StatesmanWhere does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? …
Seabird’s Cry
The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
Häftad, 2018
141 kr
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire – beautifully illustrated …
Seabird’s Cry
The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
E-bok, 2017
113 kr
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire – beautifully illustrated …
Seabird's Cry
The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
Ljudbok, 2017
214 kr
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire – beautifully illustrated by …
Life Between the Tides
In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
E-bok, 2021
38 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 ‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their …
Life Between the Tides
In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
Ljudbok, 2021
227 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAALFew places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their …
Life Between the Tides
In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
Häftad, 2022
129 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 ‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their …
Making of Poetry
Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Ljudbok, 2019
227 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019Wordsworth and Coleridge as you’ve never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world.It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient …
How to Be
Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Inbunden, 2023
295 kr
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical …
