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God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
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?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore by Adam Nicolson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Animals/Pets
‘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. How ...Show more
Seize the Fire - Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“Strikingly original. . . . Mr. Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.”--The Economist Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and t ...Show more
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