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Britains Utopiaby Adam NicolsonISBN 0002571307 (0-00-257130-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Extreme Britainby Adam NicolsonISBN 0007180853 (0-00-718085-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extreme Britain'Book summary:Thoughts from a small boat in a big sea. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go for an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles: Cornwall to Scilly, over to Pembrokeshire and the west of Ireland, to the Hebrides and its offliers, St Kilda and North Rona, before heading on to Orkney, and finally to the Faroes, a 200-mile leap out into the autumn winds of the North Atlantic. But the book is not just a travel journal. Adam Nicolson writes of his own yearnings for the sea and for wide open spaces. His year is strung between the competing claims of leaving and belonging, of thinking that no life could be more exhilarating than battling a big gale driving in out of the Atlantic and of wanting to be back, in harbour, safe, still and protected. Running throughout the book is a dialogue in the author himself between the attractions of home and not home, the certainties of what you know and the seductions of what you don't. Reflective and poetic, treating the sea less as a playground than as another intriguing and unknown landscape on our doorstep, Man at Sea is nevertheless full of rich experience. It is a story passionately engaged with the beauty and marvels of the wild Atlantic coast, but is also a self-portrait of a man in the middle of his life who is determined to find out what it's all for. [via]
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God's Secretaries: The Making Of The King James Bibleby Adam NicolsonISBN 0060838736 (0-06-083873-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Secretaries: The Making Of The King James Bible'Book summary:A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; Arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities.
This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment Englishness and the English language had come into its first passionate maturity. Boisterous, elegant, subtle, majestic, finely nuanced, sonorous and musical, the English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own reach and scope than any before or since. It is a form of the language that drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book.
The sponsor and guide of the whole Bible project was the King himself, the brilliant, ugly and profoundly peace-loving James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England. Trained almost from birth to manage the rivalries of political factions at home, James saw in England the chance for a sort of irenic Eden over which the new translation of the Bible was to preside. It was to be a Bible for everyone, and as God's lieutenant on earth, he would use it to unify his kingdom. The dream of Jacobean peace, guaranteed by an elision of royal power and divine glory, lies behind a Bible of extraordinary grace and everlasting literary power.
About fifty scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London did the work, drawing on many previous versions, and created a text which, for all its failings, has never been equaled. That is the central question of this book: How did this group of near-anonymous divines, muddled, drunk, self-serving, ambitious, ruthless, obsequious, pedantic and flawed as they were, manage to bring off this astonishing translation? How did such ordinary men make such extraordinary prose? In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king; of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible; of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building, but a book.
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Men of Honour : Trafalgar and the Making of the English Heroby Adam NicolsonISBN 0007192657 (0-00-719265-7)
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Power and Glory : Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bibleby Adam NicolsonISBN 000710894X (0-00-710894-X)
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Quarrel with the Kingby Adam NicolsonISBN 000724052X (0-00-724052-X)
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Regeneration Story of the Domeby Adam NicolsonISBN 0006531814 (0-00-653181-4)
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Sea Room : An Island Lifeby Adam NicolsonISBN 0006532012 (0-00-653201-2)
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Seamanship : The Story of the Sea, a Man, and a Shipby Adam NicolsonISBN 0007180861 (0-00-718086-1)
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Seamanship: A Voyage Along The Wild Coasts Of The British Islesby Adam NicolsonISBN 0060753447 (0-06-075344-7)
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Seamanship is more than a travel journal. It describes an inner journey as much as an outer onedisasters and discoveries, powerful landscapes and modern visionaries, and encounters with the animals living on the wild edge of the Atlantic. Above all, it is about the gaps that open up between those who go and those who stay at home.
Seamanship, in the end, is not about the sea. It's about being alive.
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Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebridesby David Yeadon, Lawson, Bill (AFT), Adam NicolsonISBN 006074183X (0-06-074183-X)
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In Seasons on Harris, David Yeadon, "one of our best travel writers" (The Bloomsbury Review), captures, through elegant words and line drawings, life on Harristhe people, their folkways and humor, and their centuries-old Norse and Celtic traditions of crofting and fishing. Here Gaelic is still spoken in its purest form, music and poetry ceilidh evenings flourish in the local pubs, and Sabbath Sundays are observed with Calvinistic strictness. Yeadon's book makes us care deeply about these proud islanders, their folklore, their history, their challenges, and the imperiled future of their traditional island life and beloved tweed.
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, And Nelson's Battle of Trafalgarby Adam NicolsonISBN 0060753625 (0-06-075362-5)
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Seize The Fire: Heroism, Duty, And The Battle Of Trafalgarby Adam NicolsonISBN 0060753617 (0-06-075361-7)
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In addition to an in-depth study of Nelson's background and psychology, Nicolson discusses the cultural differences between the three countries. For instance, in England, a non-aristocrat like Nelson was allowed to rise to the top--an occurrence that would have been impossible in both France and Spain given their strict societal codes. Each nation's motivation was different as well. Spain's social system was based on aristocratic chivalry, while France was acting according to the authoritative whim of Napoleon. Britain, however, was motivated by trade, and Nicolson discusses how England was able to finance its powerful navy by taxing the growing middle class and their seemingly limitless desire for material goods, making Trafalgar "the first great bourgeois victory of European history." Seize the Fire provides an intriguing perspective on one of the great naval battles in history. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Sissinghurstby Adam NicolsonISBN 0007240546 (0-00-724054-6)
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Two Roads to Dodge City: Two Colorful English Writers, Father and Son, Chronicle Their Wonderful Journeys Across Americaby Nigel Nicolson, Adam NicolsonISBN 0060390646 (0-06-039064-6)
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