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From the bestselling and award-winning nature writer Adam Nicolson, a glorious new adventure into the British wilderness.

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Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.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 us to our earliest thinkers through the lands they inhabited. To know the mental occupations of Homer or Heraclitus, one must visit their cities, sail their se...

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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A lively, dramatic account of the making of the King James Bible and of the early years of the first Stewart monarch. 2004 is the 400th anniversary of the commissioning of the King James Bible. "Vivid, exhilarating, consistently intelligent, you can almost taste the air breathed by these Jacobean heroes" Simon Jenkins

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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. 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 stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living wi...

An seinem einundzwanzigsten Geburtstag erhält Adam Nicolson von seinem Vater, dem Sohn von Vita Sackville-West und Sir Harold Nicolson, eine kleine schottische Inselgruppe: die Shiants. Gelegen an den äußeren Hebriden fallen ihre steilen schwarzen Klippen fünfhundert Meter tief in den kalten, nach mystischen, halb menschlichen Kreaturen benannten »Strom der Blauen Männer«. Robben tummeln sich an ihren Ufern. Hummer suchen sich ihren Weg durch ...

A geography of the ancient world, a reintroduction to our earliest thinkers and a glorious exploration of our connections with the past - from the award-winning writer Adam Nicolson.

Nicolson investigates whether the world was a better place before the advent of modernisation. Through the 16th and 17th centuries, England underwent many changes, with the result that the individualist world took over from the chivalric ideals of old. By looking at the Earls of Pembroke, he explores the transition from the medieval to the modern.

A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Miraculous ... An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew' PHILIP HOARE Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.

A geography of the ancient world, a reintroduction to our earliest thinkers and a glorious exploration of our connections with the past - from the award-winning writer Adam Nicolson.

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 made them all, " says a well-known hymn. This issue of Plough celebrates the creatures of our planet - plant, animal, and human - and the implications of humankind's relationship to nature.But if nature can be read as a book that reveals the wisdom of its Creator, it also reveals t...

Adam Nicholson 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 of a rockpool and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. Go to the rocks and the living will say hello.Inside each rockpool, tu...

Seit Adam Nicolson als Junge die unbesiedelten Shiant Islands vor der schottischen Küste besuchte, ist er von Seevögeln fasziniert. Die Inselgruppe ist bekannt für ihre markanten Klippen, die große Kolonien von Papageientauchern, Trottellummen und Dreizehenmöwen beherbergen. Viele Seevögel legen zeit ihres Lebens unglaubliche Distanzen zurück, immer einem inneren Kompass folgend, der sich nach Signalen aus der Natur richtet, manche so subtil w...

A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Miraculous ... An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew' PHILIP HOAREFew places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.

A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Miraculous ... An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew' PHILIP HOARE Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.