birth_place nationality birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
bransgore , england british 12 september 1957 1981 to present history , memoir , nature , place adam nicolson
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adam nicolson

adam nicolson , 5th baron carnock frsl , fsa -lrb- born 12 september 1957 -rrb- is a british author who has written about history , landscape , great literature and the sea .
he is noted for his books `` sea room '' -lrb- about the shiant isles , a group of uninhabited islands in the hebrides -rrb- ; `` god 's secretaries : the making of the king james bible '' ; `` men of honour '' -lrb- about admiral nelson and the battle of trafalgar -rrb- ; `` earls of paradise '' -lrb- an exploration of arcadianism in 16th and 17th century england -rrb- ; `` the smell of summer grass '' -lrb- describing his struggles with a small sussex farm -rrb- ; and `` sissinghurst : an unfinished history '' -lrb- describing his attachment to his family home and his plans to transform the landscape there -rrb- .
`` the mighty dead '' -lrb- us title : `` why homer matters '' -rrb- describes the epic greek poems as a powerful voice both in his own life and in european culture .
