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Adam Nicolson has been both a publisher and a travel writer, and is the author of many award-winning books. He lives on a farm with his family near Burwash, England
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Verk av Adam Nicolson

Quarrel with the King (2008) 221 exemplar
Life Between the Tides (2021) 148 exemplar
Atlantic Britain (2004) 113 exemplar
The Making of Poetry (2019) 73 exemplar
Panoramas of England (1997) 52 exemplar
On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France and the U.S. (1990) — Författare — 51 exemplar

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Granta 18: The Snap Revolution (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
Granta 133: What Have We Done (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
Granta 152: Still Life (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
National Geographic Magazine 2015 v227 #3 March (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Nicolson, Adam
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Nicolson, Adam
Födelsedag
1957-09-12
Kön
male
Nationalitet
UK
Land (för karta)
England, UK
Födelseort
Bransgore, England, UK
Bostadsorter
Sissinghurst, Kent, England, UK
Sussex, England, UK
Utbildning
Eton College
University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
Summer Fields School, Oxford
Yrken
non-fiction writer
journalist
Relationer
Nicolson, Juliet (sister)
Nicolson, Nigel (father)
Nicolson, Harold (grandfather)
Sackville-West, Vita (grandmother)
Nicolson, Benedict (uncle)
Priser och utmärkelser
Somerset Maugham Award (1986)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Kort biografi
Adam Nicolson is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge and has worked as a journalist and columnist on the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.Nicolson was married to Olivia Fane from 1982 to 1992. They have three sons, Thomas (born in 1984), William (born 1986) and Ben (born 1988).Since 1992 Nicolson has been married to Sarah Raven. He and his wife have two daughters, Rosie (born 1993) and Molly (born 1996). They live at Perch Hill Farm in Sussex and at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with the National Trust, he led a project which transformed the 260 acres (110 ha) surrounding the house and garden at Sissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.In December 2008 he succeeded his cousin David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock as 5th Baron Carnock, a title he does not use.
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The author looks at research on ten different seabirds, while providing some poetic and literary context for their connections with man and a snapshot of their daily life.
 
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cspiwak | 3 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
A set of chapters about different sea birds that nest on the coasts and spend most of their lives at sea. Some of them I'd not be able to distinguish, some pictures were quite useful, a ready reckoner would have been valuable. It covers them life cycle, the latest science but also how they appear and are portrayed in literature and popular culture. So the Albatross has only been considered bad luck to kill one since Coleridge's poem, before that, they were regularly killed for food. Can get a little repetitive, and the final chapter is profoundly depressing for the future of these specialised birds.… (mer)
 
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Helenliz | 3 andra recensioner | Jan 25, 2024 |
This book is an exploration of the themes in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and how they may relate to later human history and the world today. His central thesis is that Homer's epics probably originate about a millennium earlier than the 8th century BC period to which most historians assign it, and the Trojan War earlier than the 13th century BC period. This is based on comparing events and background details in the epics with archaeological evidence of the arrival of the ancestors of the Greek people in their current homeland, leading to the clash of two very different peoples, the nomadic proto-Greeks and the city-based Trojans ("The idea I have pursued is that the Homeric poems are legends shaped around the arrival of a people – the people who through this very process would grow to be the Greeks – in what became their Mediterranean homeland"). He pursues some interesting evidence about words existing or not in the Proto Indo European (PIE) language, to draw conclusions about the probable place of origin of these proto-Greeks, for example in small, inland communities, given that there are no PIE words for city or sea.

This is fascinating stuff, but I was not really convinced that this shows the epics were penned as early as he says, given that it is generally accepted anyway that Homer was recording, in the then very new medium of writing, epics passed down in oral form from generation to generation for centuries beforehand. Other scholars have pointed out that, given the similarity of style, the two epics were probably written down by the same person consecutively, as the Odyssey is aware of the existence of the Iliad, but not vice versa - "The Odyssey, with extraordinary care, is shaped around the pre-existence of the Iliad. It fills in details that are absent from the earlier poem – the Trojan Horse, the death of Achilles – but never mentions anything that is described there".

Despite this very interesting exploration of historical, archaeological, cultural and linguistic issues, I had a problem with aspects of his writing style and choice of material. The language is often rather elaborate and I found some of the description overblown and too "stream of consciousness" for my liking. I didn't see the point of including some of his personal material, in particular the inclusion of an incident from his youth when he was raped by a stranger of his own age, which seemed entirely gratuitous to me. So I was left with rather mixed feelings about this book.
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john257hopper | 17 andra recensioner | Jan 21, 2024 |
Well-written explication of Homer the poet and his relevance to today. Covering the ancient world and more the book provides food for thought for those of us who love reading and rereading the epics of Homer.
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jwhenderson | 17 andra recensioner | Nov 17, 2023 |

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ISBN
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