The Borders A History of the Borders from Earliest Times

This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. It is the story of England and Scotland, told not from the remoteness of London or Edinburgh or in the tired terms of national histories, but up close and personal, toe to toe and eyeball to eyeball across the tweed, the Cheviots, the Esk and the tidal races of the upper Solway. This is a tale told in blood, fun and granite-hard memory. This is the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior, where Celtic warlords ruled, the Romans came but could not conquer, where the glittering kingdom of Northumbria thrived, the place where David MacMalcolm raised great abbeys, where the border rivers rode into history, and where Walter Scott sat at Abbotsford and brooded on the area's rich and historic legacy.

ISBN:	9781780275543
Publisher:	Birlinn Ltd
Imprint:	Birlinn
Published date:	12 Jul 2018
DEWEY:	941.37
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 602 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	558g
Height:	197mm
Width:	128mm
Spine width:	47mm

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