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Adam Nicolson

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September 12, 1957

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History, Home & Garden, Religion & Spirituality

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Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock, FRSL, FSA known simply as Adam Nicolson, is a British author who has written about English history, landscape and the sea. He is noted for his books Perch Hill, describing his struggles with a small Sussex farm, Sea Room — about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides — Power and Glory (published in North America as God's Secretaries), on the making of the King James Bible, Men of Honour (US title Seize the Fire), on Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, Earls of Paradise (US title Quarrel with the King), an exploration of Arcadianism in 16th and 17th century England, and Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History, which describes his attachment to his family home and his plans to tr...more

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Books by Adam Nicolson

Average rating: 3.69 · 809 ratings · 212 reviews · 37 distinct works

	God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible 3.65 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar 3.70 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides 4.11 avg rating — 80 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History 3.69 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War 3.36 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Seamanship: A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Carrie Kipling 1862-1939: The Hated Wife 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Perch Hill 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Panoramas Of England by Adam Nicolson, Nick Meers 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The National Trust Book Of Long Walks 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.”
― Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

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“The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of authority as a form of good; the New English Bible is motivated by the opposite, an anxiety not to bore or intimidate. It is driven, in other words, by the desire to please and, in that way, is a form of language which has died.”
― Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

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Topics Mentioning This Author

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The History Book ...: * CIVIL WAR AND REVOLUTION - 1603 - 1714	27	136	May 20, 2012 08:43am
The History Book ...: * NELSON AND THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR	31	120	May 20, 2012 09:56pm
The History Book ...: PROTESTANTISM	5	61	May 23, 2012 01:29pm

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