Earls of Paradise by Adam Nicolson
A fascinating portrait from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family, a portrait, and a quarrel with a king that would tear that family apart.`A brilliantly imaginative and beautifully written coup of scholarship…Nicolson has written well about the English landscape before, but here he surpasses himself…fascinating…absorbing’ Observer
`Nicolson is a terrific writer. The countryside scenery essential to his drama is described with transcendent sensitivity.’ Independent
`A beautifully written and finely balanced book…above all, it is a sensual, even rapturous tribute to the beauties of the countryside and a disarmingly readable contribution to the history of ideas…Earls of Paradise is an elegant, thoughtful, imaginative book…Nicolson's carefully crafted prose never strikes a false note. With its love of natural beauty, its affection for small communities, its trust in the past and its customs, his book will give abiding pleasure.’ Sunday Times
`An elegantly written and intellectually adventurous lament for an England that has long since disappeared…as a past winner of the British Topography Prize, Nicolson might have been expected to write well about the Wiltshire countryside, but he surpasses all expectations here. His opening description of the rippling downs and shadowed woods around Wilton…is a miniature masterpiece…and since Nicolson's touch is just as sure with people as it is with places, we get a wonderful sense of everyday rural life in early modern England.’ Evening Standard
`Immensely readable.’ Daily Telegraph
`Fascinating…a rich, informative and original book…it weaves its three themes together in a deft and beguiling way.’ Sunday Telegraph
`A superb book, beautifully written, subtle, passionate, questioning, mind-altering and wise.’ Daily Mail
`Absorbing…Nicolson recreates, with admirable vigour and a sure control of complicated details a country in crisis…his wonderful, lyrical and contemplative book.’ Guardian
`Brilliant *****’ Mail on Sunday
`Nicolson does a brilliant job of showing us English rural society in the last throws of feudalism’
Guardian Summer Reading
Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780007240524 |
| ISBN 10 | 000724052X |
| Title | Earls of Paradise |
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |