The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England - Hardcover

Robb, Graham

 
9780393285321: The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393285324 ISBN 13: 9780393285321
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, near the banks of a river that once marked the southern boundary of the legendary Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land served as a buffer between Scotland and England. It was once the bloodiest region in the country, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and James V. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be brought under the control of the state. Today, it has vanished from the map and its boundaries are matters of myth and generational memories.Under the spell of a powerful curiosity, Robb began a journey—on foot, by bicycle, and into the past—that would uncover lost towns and roads, and unlock more than one discovery of major historical significance. These personal and scholarly adventures reveal a tale that spans Roman, Medieval, and present-day Britain.The Debatable Land

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393285324
ISBN 13 
9780393285321
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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Verantwortliche Person
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Krügerweg 1
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Brandenburg
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Deutschland

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