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  • God's Secretaries

    The Making of the King James Bible

    de 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... ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Seize the Fire

    Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Atlantic Britain

    The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • Bird School

    A Beginner in the Wood

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Why Homer Matters

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Il mare non è fatto di acqua

    Una storia di natura, creature e maree

    de Adam Nicolson ...
    Molti tra noi ritengono che per comprendere la complessità e varietà della vita sul pianeta Terra sia necessario visitarne ogni recondito anfratto. Altri, come lo storico Adam Nicolson, sono invece certi che si possa ottenere lo stesso risultato concentrandosi su un punto molto preciso e contemplandolo in modo attento e ossessivo. Questo libro racconta una linea di confine, quella tra la terra e ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Quarrel with the King

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Living Will Say Hello (Picador Shorts)

    de Adam Nicolson ...
    Series series Picador Shorts
    **An intimate, quirky, and soulful portrait of the many lives that swirl and teem in that microcosm of the universe, the ocean rock pool.In this standalone extract from Adam Nicolson’s Life Between the Tides, the reader gets a close-up view of some of the ocean’s most intriguing characters.**The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Life Between the Tides

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Seabird's Cry

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Why Homer Matters

    de Adam Nicolson ...
    Narrado por John Lee ...

    Completo

    9 hora 46 minutos

    Adam 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 Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time.Homer's poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes "a third space" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook