NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, is entirely true to its subject: Adam Nicolson's lapidary prose is masterly, his measured account both as readable as the curious demand and as dignified as the story deserves."  - Simon Winchester, author of Krakatoa In God's Secretaries, Adam...

Illustrations accompany the Biblical text telling how Noah obeyed God's command to build an ark in order to survive the great flood.