NICOLSON ADAM

(P/B) How to Be
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 succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great in...
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ΓΙΑΤΙ Ο ΟΜΗΡΟΣ ΕΧΕΙ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ
Γιατί έχει σημασία ο Όμηρος; Τα έπη του μπορούν ακόμη και σήμερα να μας μιλήσουν για τον ρόλο της μοίρας στη ζωή, για τη σκληρότητα, για την ανθρωπότητα και τις αδυναμίες της, αλλά το γιατί παραμένει μυστήριο. Πώς μπορεί κάτι τόσο μακρινό να είναι οικείο; Ο Άνταμ Νίκολσον εξηγεί γιατί αυτά τα αρχαία ποιήματα έχουν τόσο πολλά να πουν για το τι σημαίνει να είσαι άνθρωπος, να αγαπάς, να χάνεις, να γερνάς και να πεθαίνεις. Το βιβλίο του είναι ένα ταξίδι στο παρελθόν μέσα από τις παλιότερες ιστορίες που έχουν διασωθεί - την Ιλιάδα και την Οδύσ...
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(P/B) SEA ROOM
20 years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. His father had answered a newspaper advertisement in the '30s. 'Uninhabited islands for sale', it said. 'Outer Hebrides. 600 acres. 500 ft basaltic cliffs. Puffins and seals. Cabin. Apply Col. Kenneth Macdonald, Portree, Skye.' These were the Shiants, three of the loneliest of the British Isles, set in a dangerous sea, with no more than a stone-built, rat-ridden bothy as accommodation, five miles or so off the coast of Lewis. They cost £1400 and for that he bought one of the most beautiful places ...
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(H/B) THE MIGHTY DEAD
Where 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? In this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why these great ancient poems still have so much to say about what it is to be human, to love, lose, grow old and die. 'The Mighty Dead' is a journey of history and discovery, sewn together by the ...
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