The Marches : a borderland journey between England and Scotland / Rory Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Rory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stewart, Rory--Travel--Scottish Borders (England and Scotland).

Stewart, Rory.

Travel.

Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)--Description and travel.

Scottish Borders (England and Scotland).

Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)--History.

TRAVEL--Essays & Travelogues.

HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain--General.

Local Subjects:

TRAVEL--Essays & Travelogues.

HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain--General.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

xii, 354 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (1 color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Summary:

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.

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.

Contents:

Chronology

The wall

Middleland

The general danced at dawn.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780544108882

0544108884

OCLC:

962408310