The Marches /
Stewart, Rory.
The Marches / Rory Stewart. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2014. - 272 pages ; 23 cm.
10 years after walking across Central Asia and through Afghanistan, Rory Stewart returns to Britain. He walks a thousand miles, crossing and recrossing the English-Scottish Border. He is a Scot living in England, and the Member of Parliament for the only constituency with 'Border' in its name. He discovers that, buried beneath England and Scotland, is another country, now lost, a Middleland with its own history, its own civilisation: a vanished kingdom. In this book, he draws on contemporary politics, and long years working in rural Asia, and on troubled borders, to illuminate the pattern of forgetting and remembrance that makes a very modern border and a very modern nationalism.
9780224097680 (hbk.) : 16.99 0224097687 (hbk.) : 16.99
Stewart, Rory--Travel--Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)
Borderlands--History.--England
Borderlands--Description and travel.--England
Borderlands--History.--Scotland
Borderlands--Description and travel.--Scotland
History.
History.
DA880.B72
941.37 STE
The Marches / Rory Stewart. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2014. - 272 pages ; 23 cm.
10 years after walking across Central Asia and through Afghanistan, Rory Stewart returns to Britain. He walks a thousand miles, crossing and recrossing the English-Scottish Border. He is a Scot living in England, and the Member of Parliament for the only constituency with 'Border' in its name. He discovers that, buried beneath England and Scotland, is another country, now lost, a Middleland with its own history, its own civilisation: a vanished kingdom. In this book, he draws on contemporary politics, and long years working in rural Asia, and on troubled borders, to illuminate the pattern of forgetting and remembrance that makes a very modern border and a very modern nationalism.
9780224097680 (hbk.) : 16.99 0224097687 (hbk.) : 16.99
Stewart, Rory--Travel--Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)
Borderlands--History.--England
Borderlands--Description and travel.--England
Borderlands--History.--Scotland
Borderlands--Description and travel.--Scotland
History.
History.
DA880.B72
941.37 STE