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The Marches - A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland (Paperback)
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The Marches - A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland (Paperback)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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From a member of Parliament and best-selling author of The Places
in Between, an exploration of the Marches--the borderland between
England and Scotland--and the political turmoil and vivid lives
that created it. In The Places in Between, Rory Stewart walked some
of the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he travels with
his eighty-nine-year-old father--a comical, wily, courageous, and
infuriating former British intelligence officer--along the border
they call home. On Stewart's four-hundred-mile walk across a
magnificent natural landscape, he sleeps on mountain ridges and in
housing projects, in hostels and farmhouses. With every fresh
encounter--from an Afghanistan veteran based on Hadrian's Wall to a
shepherd who still counts his flock in sixth-century words--Stewart
uncovers more about the forgotten peoples and languages of a
vanished country, now crushed between England and Scotland. Stewart
and his father are drawn into unsettling reflections on landscape,
their parallel careers in the bygone British Empire and Iraq, and
the past, present, and uncertain future of the United Kingdom. This
is a profound reflection on family, landscape, and history by a
powerful and original writer. “An unforgettable tale." --
National Geographic “The miracle of The Marches is not so
much the treks Stewart describes, pulling in all possible relevant
history, as the monument that emerges to his beloved father." --
New York Times Book Review
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