The Marches : a borderland journey between England and Scotland
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 354 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (1 color), maps ; 24 cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
941.37 S851
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941.37 S851
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.
General Note
Includes index.
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Explores the landscape of the author's home on the borderland between England and Scotland--known as the Marches--and the history, people, and conflicts that have shaped it.
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In The Places in Between, Rory Stewart walked some of the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he travels with his 89-year-old father--a comical, wily courageous, and infuriating former British intelligence officer--along the border they call home. On Stewart's 400-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. And as the end approaches, his father's stubborn charm transforms this chronicle of nations into a fierce, exuberant encounter between a father and a son. This is a profound reflection on family, landscape, and history by a powerful and original writer.--From dust jacket.
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