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    How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

    Adam Nicolson

    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?

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    How to Be

    Adam Nicolson

    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…
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    Poems of the Sea

    A gorgeous collection of classic poetry all about the sea and the rivers and lakes that feed them. Introduced by author Adam Nicolson.

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    How to Be

    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…

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    Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore

    Adam Nicolson

    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…
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    Seamanship: A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles

    Adam Nicolson

    From the author of God’s Secretaries comes a thrilling sailing saga of a 42-foot ketch among the islands of Ireland and Scotland and the tensions that develop between skipper and…

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    Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War

    Adam Nicolson

    The renowned, bestselling author of God’s Secretaries and Seize the Fire explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion witnessed through the life and times of one of England’s richest…

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    God’s Secretaries

    Adam Nicolson

    Places the King James Version in historical context, aims to bring vividly to life many of those who worked on it, gives an account of how the task was accomplished…

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    Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar

    Adam Nicolson

    For the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Nicolson draws from a wide range of sources to investigate the battle, and the ambitions, fears and principles that drove the…

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    The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

    Adam Nicolson

    Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction ‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire…

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    The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

    Adam Nicolson

    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…

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    How to Be

    Adam Nicolson

    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…
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    How to Be

    Adam Nicolson

    "Adam Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past"--

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    Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides

    Adam Nicolson

    Adam Nicolson’s father had answered a newspaper advertisement in the 1930s: Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides. 600 acres. Adam Nicolson inherited the islands when he was 21, and in…

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    Sea Room

    Adam Nicolson

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own set of islands?

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    Atlantic Britain: The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship

    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.

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    Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

    Adam Nicolson

    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 -…

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    Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

    Adam Nicolson

    A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.

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    Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class

    Adam Nicolson

    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…

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    When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible

    Adam Nicolson

    A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible.

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    Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill

    Adam Nicolson

    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…

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    The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels

    Adam Nicolson

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 Wordsworth and Coleridge as you’ve never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing…

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    Why Homer Matters

    Adam Nicolson

    Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by Homer’s poems and their metaphors of life and trouble.

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    The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers

    Adam Nicolson

    Originally published in The U.K. in 2017 by HarperCollins.

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    Life Between the Tides

    Adam Nicolson

    Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rock pools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book.

    The sea is not made of water…

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    How to Be

    Adam Nicolson

    In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces…

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    How to Be

    Adam Nicolson

    In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces…

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    God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

    Adam Nicolson

    A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean Englandan England both more godly and less godly than it had ever been. This was the world that created the King James…

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    God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

    Adam Nicolson

    A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean Englandan England both more godly and less godly than it had ever been. This was the world that created the King James…

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    The Seabird’s Cry

    Adam Nicolson

    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…

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    The Iliad

    This prose translation tells the tale of Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, Paris, Helen, and all Troy besieged by the mighty Greeks. It is a tale of glory, and honor, of pride…

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    How to Be

    Adam Nicolson

    In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces…

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    Memoirs of Adam Black

    This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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    Memoirs of Adam Black

    This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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    Memoirs of Adam Black

    This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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    Colour of Time: Garry Fabian Miller

    Adam Nicolson,Marina Warner,Nigel Warburton

    The Colour of Time is a retrospective overview of the work of Garry Fabian Miller, one of contemporary photography’s most respected and progressive fine art practitioners.

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    Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry

    Features over ninety poets, including Wendell Berry, John Betjeman, John Burnside, Helen Dunmore, Ivor Gurney, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Jennings, John Keats, Alice Oswald, Kathleen Raine and Walt Whitman.

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    Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution: John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

    Colin Nicolson,Owen Dudley Edwards

    This book is a microhistory of how friendship operated in the American Revolution. It explores the friendship of two political adversaries whose careers coincided with and were shaped by the…

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    Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution: John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

    Colin Nicolson,Owen Dudley Edwards

    This book is a microhistory of how friendship operated in the American Revolution. It explores the friendship of two political adversaries whose careers coincided with and were shaped by the…

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    An Experimental Investigation Into the Flow of Marble [microform]

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the public…

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    Plough Quarterly No. 28 - Creatures: The Nature Issue

    Adam Nicolson,Gracy Olmstead,Christian Wiman,Kelsey Osgood,John Kempf

    When we read the book of nature, what do we read there?

    All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God…

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