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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
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Adam Nicolson
Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing readers in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. 16-page insert.
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Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
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A riveting book for all readers who know and love a place where the sea meets the land. In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad -- "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . ." -- and found the Shiants (the name means holy or enchanted islands). Adam inherited this almost ...
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Seamanship: A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles
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Adam Nicolson
Like all good books about sailing and the sea, SEAMANSHIP can make you feel glad to be cozily on shore, away from gales, retching seasickness, icy rain, and the often lethal waves. It can also make you feel somewhat envious of those who feel compelled to take their chances with the elements. Deciding to try his luck cruising the Atlantic ...
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
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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 British fleet to such a devastating victory.
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On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France, and the U.S.
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Adam Nicolson, Mary Ellen O'Neill (Editor)
The joy of traveling steps right off the pages as Adam Nicolson invites readers to walk with him through 26 places too interesting to experience any other way. With wit, energy, and a contagious taste for adventure, this marvelous writer celebrates the original form of travel and the leisurely discoveries it affords. 80 illustrations; 25 maps.
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Prospects of England: Two Thousand Years Seen Through Twelve English Towns
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Adam Nicolson, Peter Morter
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
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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 British fleet to such a devastating victory.
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Sea room
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Adam Nicolson's father had answered a newspaper advertisement in the 1930s: "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides. 600 acres. 500 ft basaltic cliffs. Puffins and seals. Cabin. Apply Col. Kenneth Macdonald, Portree, Skye." These were the Shiants, three of the loneliest of the British Isles, set in a dangerous sea, with no more than a stone ...
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Two Roads to Dodge City: Two Colorful English Writers, Father and Son, Chronicle Their Wonderful Journeys Across America
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Nigel Nicholson, Nigel Nicolson, Adam Nicolson
Today's American and its people as seen through the eyes of the authors, who traveled the states from coast to coast and met in Dodge City to compare their fresh and revealing insights.
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The National Trust book of long walks
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Adam Nicolson, Charlie Waite
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Natl Trust Bk of Long Walks En
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Panoramas of England
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Adam Nicolson, Nick Meers
Far-reaching views from hilltops, villages nestling in broad valleys, or fields glittering with wild flowers strching into the distance, this is a collection ofclassic images of England - all uncurtailed by the normal restraints of the artificial eye, using a special panoramic camera.
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Earls of Paradise
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Adam Nicolson
A fascinating portrait from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family, a portrait, and a quarrel with a king that would tear that family apart. 'Et in Arcadia Ego--I too am in Arcadia' Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an ...
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The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939
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Adam Nicolson
Carrie Kipling was one of the most unpopular women of her generation. Henry James called her that hard, capable little person', Rudyard Kipling's parents detested her. And yet Carrie was in many ways misunderstood. Drawing on a vast archive of diaries and letters, Adam Nicolson cuts right to the heart of the Kiplings' dysfunctional marriage. For ...
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Journey Through the British Isles
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Harry Cory Wright, Adam Nicolson (Foreword by)
In the tradition of the great journeys through Britain undertaken by such writers as Daniel Defoe in the 1720s and William Cobbett in the 1820s, Harry Cory Wright set out in the spring of 2006 to photograph the variety of natural landscapes that make up the British Isles, using a large-format plate camera. This magnificently produced book ...
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Atlantic Britain
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Adam Nicolson
Accompanied by an 8-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 for an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, ...
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Men of honour : Trafalgar and the making of the English hero
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Adam Nicolson
The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth century imagination like no other battle: it was ...
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Landscapes in Britain
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Adam Nicolson, Charlie Waite
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Long walks in France
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Adam Nicolson
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Adam Nicolson's book of walks.
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Adam Nicolson
A series of walking tours mainly in Britain but also in France and the USA.
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Restoration : the rebuilding of Windsor Castle
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Adam Nicolson, Royal Collection Enterprises
Just over five years ago Windsor Castle was devastated by fire. In this book Nicolson charts the years since the fire through to the final rebuilding, including dealing with the fire, the finances of restoring the Castle and the decisions on whether simply to restore or make changes.
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Perch Hill : a new life
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Adam Nicolson
Somewhere between an imaginary rural idyll packed with breathtaking scenery and charming rustics, and the hard end of real farming life, Adam Nicholson found Perch Hill, a run-down farm in the Sussex Weald. Driven there by the pressures of metropolitan life, he and his family moved to the failed farm and set about trying to put it to rights, ...
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Seamanship
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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 ...
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Wetland : life in the Somerset Levels
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Patrick Sutherland, Adam Nicolson
Patrick Sutherland's photographs and Adam Nicolson's prose capture the existences of the men and women for whom this part of England forms the background and substance of their lives. As the Wetlands come under threat from both the forces of modern farming and the contradictory, complex demands of conservation, this book provides a lasting poetic ...
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The Elf book of long walks in France
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Adam Nicolson, Charlie Waite
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