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- God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible 1,328 copies, 30 reviews
- Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides 372 copies, 8 reviews
- Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar 370 copies, 7 reviews
- Why Homer Matters 301 copies, 13 reviews
- Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History 209 copies, 6 reviews
- Quarrel with the King 169 copies, 9 reviews
- Seamanship: A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles 81 copies
- Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class 73 copies, 3 reviews
- The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other… 57 copies
- National Trust Book of Long Walks in England, Scotland, and Wales 51 copies
- Prospects of England: Two Thousand Years Seen Through Twelve English Towns 51 copies
- Panoramas of England 45 copies
- On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France and the U.S. (Author) 44 copies
- Restoration: The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle 27 copies
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Adam Nicolson has 3 past events. (show)  Adam Nicolson, British historian, on nature and spirit Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock, FRSL, FSA (born 12 September 1957), is a British author who writes about English history, landscape and the sea. He is noted for his books Sea room (about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides); Power and Glory: the making of the King James Bible; Men of honour (about Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar); Earls of paradise (an exploration of Arcadianism in 16th and 17th century England); The Smell of Summer Grass (describing his struggles with a small Sussex farm); and Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History (describing his attachment to his family home and his plans to transform the landscape there). In 2011 he published The Gentry: Stories of the English (about the last six centuries of gentry culture in England).
Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Roosting Duchess of Devonshire discusses Home to Roost.; Charlotte Mosley discusses The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh.; Adam Nicolson discusses Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History. Tickets £10 The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford Sisters, is a woman of many parts, first and foremost chatelaine of Chatsworth, one of England's greatest and best-loved houses, but also a writer and of course, a fashion icon. Charlotte Mosley is the meticulous and admired editor of The Mitford Letters and the correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford.They talk to Adam Nicolson, chatelain of Sissinghurst and award-winning author, about the on-going responsibilities of inheriting a national treasure and a famous name. Adam Nicolson's new book is Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History. Deborah Devonshire's Home to Roost is a sequel to Counting My Chickens. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more) Arcadia Adam Nicolson, Earls of Paradise.; Charles Saumarez SmithTickets £10. "Adam Nicolson in conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith. In his account of an Elizabethan golden age, Earls of Paradise, retold through the varying fortunes of the Pembrokes of Wilton – the inspiration for writers and artists including Raleigh, Donne, Inigo Jones, Van Dyck and Shakespeare – Adam Nicolson explores dreams of rural perfection. His illustrated talk considers whether Elizabethan Britain embodied a more ideal way of living than ours. Adam Nicolson is an award-winning author. Charles Saumarez-Smith, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, has written about Castle Howard." (christiguc)… (more)
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| | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | 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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