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The debatable land : the lost world between Scotland and England / Graham Robb.
Van Pelt Library DA880.B72 R62 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robb, Graham, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boundaries.
- History.
- Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)--History.
- Scottish Borders (England and Scotland).
- Scottish Borders (England and Scotland)--History, Military.
- Boundaries--History.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
- Summary:
- Explores the history of the Debatable Land, the former buffer between Scotland and England and once upon a time the bloodiest region in the country.
- Contents:
- Hidden places
- Outpost
- Panic button
- The true and ancient border
- "The sewer of abandoned men"
- Mouldywarp
- Beachcombing
- Blind roads
- Harrowed
- "Loveable custumis"
- Accelerated transhumance
- Skurrlywarble
- Exploratores
- Windy edge
- "In tymes bigane"
- "Stob and staik"
- "Rube, burne, spoyll, slaye, murder annd destrewe"
- The final partition
- Hector of ye Harlawe
- Scrope
- Tarras Moss
- "A factious and naughty people"
- Silence
- Graticules
- The Kingdom of Selgovia
- "Arthur"
- The great Caledonian invasion
- Polling stations
- No man's land
- The river.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-316) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0393285324
- 9780393285321
- OCLC:
- 1005124666
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