The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland - Couverture souple

Stewart, Rory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1328745651 ISBN 13 : 9781328745651

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2017

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Revue de presse

“The prose explodes ... Stewart's walk across the Middleland brings Cumbria brilliantly alive ... This is travel writing at its best.” —Guardian

“The miracle of The Marches is not so much the treks Stewart describes, pulling in all possible relevant history, as the monument that emerges to his beloved father.” —New York Times Book Review “Stewart proves to be a captivating tour guide... He brings archaic languages and traditions vividly alive, wrestles with nationalism and nationhood and, in a poignant closing section, traces his father's war years and last days... Beautiful, evocative and wise, The Marches highlights new truths about old countries and the unbreakable bond between a father and son.” —Malcolm Forbes, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE  

“Stewart demonstrates a deep historical understanding of the land and describes the flora and fauna that he encounters with the precision of a botanist... Stewart is a careful and thoughtful observer...” —CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 

“[A] modern day Lawrence of Arabia...a sensitive exploration of what borders mean and don't mean... the book is held together by Mr. Stewart's writing, with his short chapters moving skillfully from history to personal encounter.” — Andrew Lownie, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 

“Stewart proves to be a captivating tour guide... He brings archaic languages and traditions vividly alive, wrestles with nationalism and nationhood and, in a poignant closing section, traces his father's war years and last days... Beautiful, evocative and wise, The Marches highlights new truths about old countries and the unbreakable bond between a father and son.” —Malcolm Forbes, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE  

“Stewart demonstrates a deep historical understanding of the land and describes the flora and fauna that he encounters with the precision of a botanist... Stewart is a careful and thoughtful observer...” —CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 

“[A] modern day Lawrence of Arabia...a sensitive exploration of what borders mean and don't mean... the book is held together by Mr. Stewart's writing, with his short chapters moving skillfully from history to personal encounter.” — Andrew Lownie, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 

Présentation de l'éditeur

“An unforgettable tale.” — National Geographic   In The Places in Between Rory Stewart walked some of the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he travels with his eighty-nine-year-old father—a comical, wily, courageous, and infuriating former British intelligence officer—along the border they call home.      On Stewart’s four-hundred-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, the elder Stewart’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.   “The miracle of The Marches is not so much the treks Stewart describes, pulling in all possible relevant history, as the monument that emerges to his beloved father.” — New York Times Book Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1328745651
• ISBN 13: 9781328745651
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368