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Há 5 dias · While in Opatija, I’ve been reading "The Mighty Dead," Adam Nicolson’s fine book about the Greek poet Homer. In it, Nicolson writes about how the ancients viewed the sea—as a place in which danger lurked at every depth, a part of earthly existence in which human beings were out of their element and subject to both forces and ...
25 de mai. de 2024 · In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England.
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Há 5 dias · "Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious."--James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek--and our--consciousness ...
Há 5 dias · Celebrating Diversity in the Deep Sea | EarthShare. May 29, 2024. “The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes.” ― Adam Nicolson. Our global oceans are a massive resource; from maintaining global temperatures and weather patterns to providing critical food and mineral resources, we simply could not live without them.
16 de mai. de 2024 · Adam Nicolson O cascalho aos nossos pés apresenta-se pintado pela luz do Sol que atinge o leito do ribeiro. Em redor, o movimento da água é constante e sereno.
6 de mai. de 2024 · Anyone who has heard Adam Nicolson describe his encounter with the marvellous, mysterious chalk stream salmon deep in the tidal river Test — a genetically distinct taxon, they have a claim to be Britain’s oldest animal — or who has been lucky enough to watch or even catch and release an Atlantic salmon, will have despaired at ...
Há 6 dias · Adam Nicolson’s book is brilliant. It’s a series of detailed dives into the fascinating world of ten different sea birds, some familiar – gulls, cormorants, Manx shearwaters and puffins (thanks Steffi!), albatross (thanks Sue!); other less so – razorbills and fulmars.
