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God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
$41.99 AUD
Category: Spiritual/Religion | 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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is justice? How can I be myself?How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its crea ...Show more
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its cr ...Show more
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