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  • God's Secretaries

    The Making of the King James Bible

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    A study of the committee behind the creation of the 1611 English Bible—"an engaging work of literary, cultural, and religious history" ( Kirkus Reviews ).NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK"This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-langu... ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarrel with the King

    The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    "A moving account of the Elizabethan golden age, retold through the varying fortunes of the Pembroke family." — The Observer (London)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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

    The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    "A charming portrait of an ancient and beautiful house in Kent [and] a poignant and amusing portrait of the English class system." —Simon WinchesterFrom lavish palace for Elizabethan nobles to dreary jailhouse for eighteenth-century prisoners of war, from well-manicured country house for a string of landed families to weed-choked ruin, Sissinghurst, in Kent, has become one of the most illustrious ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seize the Fire

    Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    "Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar." — The EconomistAdam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. A story rich with modern resonance, Seize the Fire reveals the economic impact of the battle as a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Homer Matters

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    "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 YorkerAdam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Between the Tides

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist's curiosity and a poet's wonder in this beautifully illustrated book.The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atlantic Britain

    The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    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 wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Odyssey

    Translated by W. H. D. Rouse ...
    THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME—SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhether fans of suspense, fantasy, or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer’s epic tale of the legendary Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Making of Poetry

    Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them beforeJune 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 hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth's revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bird School

    A Beginner in the Wood

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    An intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.Close to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds—nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls, and in summer, the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Seabird's Cry

    The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    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 freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Be

    Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is justice? How can I be myself?How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD