The Marches /
by Stewart, Rory.
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BookPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014Description: 272 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780224097680 (hbk.) :; 0224097687 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 941.37 STESubject(s): Stewart, Rory -- Travel -- Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) | Borderlands -- England -- History | Borderlands -- England -- Description and travel | Borderlands -- Scotland -- History | Borderlands -- Scotland -- Description and travel | History | HistorySummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 941.37 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 26/10/2024 | 002935031X |
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.
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