Adam Nicolson
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; Arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities." "This was the...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Nicolson's chronicle is a fine book. Readers will be duly awed by his delicately layered story'--The New York Times Book Review; In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad for a small cluster of three islands--The Shiants (Gaelic meaning 'holy' or 'enchanted')--which lie east of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Sheer black cliffs drop five hundred feet into the cold, dark, rip currents of the Minch, lounging seals crowd at their feet...