Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson, (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. He is also the 5th Baron Carnock, but does not use the title.

He is noted for his books ''Sea Room'' (about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides); ''God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible''; ''The Mighty Dead'' (US title:''Why Homer Matters'') exploring the epic Greek poems; ''The Seabird's Cry'' about the disaster afflicting the world's seabirds; ''The Making of Poetry'' on the Romantic Revolution in England in the 1790s; and ''Life Between the Tides'', a boundary-crossing account of the tides in human and animal life. Provided by Wikipedia