Adam Nicolson
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar." —The Economist
Adam 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 victorious Great Britain
...Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters-- to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The grandson of Virginia Woolf's poet paramour Vita Sackville-West traces his passionate efforts to restore his family's celebrated garden, an effort that included a reinstatement of a working farm to grow food for more than 200,000 annual visitors.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adam Nicolson, the award-winning author of The Making of Poetry and The Seabird's Cry, explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist's curiosity and a poet's wonder in this beautifully illustrated book"--
Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward...
