Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)¿A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ¿ There¿s something that hits the mark on every page¿ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New StatesmanWhere does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant?¿The Mighty Dead¿ is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by some of the oldest stories we have ¿ the great ancient poems of Homer and their metaphors of life and trouble. In this provocative and enthralling book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer still matters and how these vital, epic verses ¿ with their focus on the eternal questions about the individual versus the community, honour and service, love and war ¿ tell us how we became who we
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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...
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Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families ¿ from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of...
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<p><b><i>Poems of the Sea</i> is an anthology of classic poetry that celebrates the sea; from the power of a stormy ocean to ships and sailors and beaches strewn with shells.<br></b><br>Part of the Macmillan Collector¿s...
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson.Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With...
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