Adam Nicolson
Author of God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
About the Author
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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- Canonical name
- Nicolson, Adam
- Legal name
- Carnock, Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron
- Birthdate
- 1957-09-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Bransgore, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Sissinghurst, Kent, England, UK
Sussex, England, UK - Education
- Eton College
University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
Summer Fields School, Oxford - Occupations
- non-fiction writer
journalist - Relationships
- Nicolson, Nigel (father)
Raven, Sarah (wife)
Nicolson, Harold (grandfather)
Sackville-West, Vita (grandmother)
Nicolson, Juliet (sister)
Nicolson, Benedict (uncle) - Awards and honors
- Somerset Maugham Award (1986)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 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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In many ways this is a fascinating book. Nicolson fashions his own rock pools in Argyllshire in Scotland in order to study, minutely, the life that fetches up there, and his resulting studies of shrimps, crabs, sea anemones and their place in the scheme of things engaged and enthralled me, even though, as a non scientist I struggled a bit to understand every word.
Then he looks more widely at tides, at waves, at geology. He looks at the philosophical ideas of Heraclitus. He discusses the bitter and harsh social history of Argyllshire. All of this is interesting, and interestingly accounted for.
In the end, I wasn't convinced this book hung together. I was glad to have read it, but remained unconvinced I knew what was at its heart, beyond the captivating contents of the rockpools.… (more)
Then he looks more widely at tides, at waves, at geology. He looks at the philosophical ideas of Heraclitus. He discusses the bitter and harsh social history of Argyllshire. All of this is interesting, and interestingly accounted for.
In the end, I wasn't convinced this book hung together. I was glad to have read it, but remained unconvinced I knew what was at its heart, beyond the captivating contents of the rockpools.… (more)
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.
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.… (more)
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Beautifully written, the book is meticulously researched. Yet Nicolson's style is readable and involving, with sometimes detailed data presented in a clear and accessible manner. His final chapter, while apparently negative about the future for many of our most loved seabirds ends on a positive note. This was a book I was sorry to have finished.… (more)