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The Marches
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ISBN: 9780099581895
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2017
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Description:
MP and travel writer Rory Stewart traverses the borderlands between England and Scotland, musing on history, memory and landscape
'This is travel writing at its best.'
Katherine Norbury, Observer
An Observer Book of the Year
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF POLITICS ON THE EDGE
Rory Stewart and his father are undertaking their final walk together along the Marches - the frontier that divides Scotland and England.
'Travel writing at its best' OBSERVER
'Profoundly moving' SPECTATOR
On their six-hundred-mile, thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, reflect on Burmese honey-bears, and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son.
'A bewitching book' SUNDAY TIMES
'An unforgettable tale' NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
'Deeply moving, honest and loving' COUNTRY LIFE
GUARDIAN READERS' BOOK OF THE YEAR
OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE HUNTER DAVIES LAKELAND PRIZE
Please note: The book cover received may differ from the cover displayed here.
ISBN: 9780099581895
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2017
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Description:
MP and travel writer Rory Stewart traverses the borderlands between England and Scotland, musing on history, memory and landscape
'This is travel writing at its best.'
Katherine Norbury, Observer
An Observer Book of the Year
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF POLITICS ON THE EDGE
Rory Stewart and his father are undertaking their final walk together along the Marches - the frontier that divides Scotland and England.
'Travel writing at its best' OBSERVER
'Profoundly moving' SPECTATOR
On their six-hundred-mile, thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, reflect on Burmese honey-bears, and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son.
'A bewitching book' SUNDAY TIMES
'An unforgettable tale' NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
'Deeply moving, honest and loving' COUNTRY LIFE
GUARDIAN READERS' BOOK OF THE YEAR
OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE HUNTER DAVIES LAKELAND PRIZE
Please note: The book cover received may differ from the cover displayed here.
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