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Walking the Border

A Journey Between Scotland and England

Ian Crofton

£9.99

In this book Ian Crofton makes a journey on foot from Gretna Green in the southwest to Berwick in the northeast, following as close as possible the Anglo-Scottish Border as it has been fixed since the union of the crowns in 1603.

Much of the line of the Border runs through a wild, overwhelmingly unvisited no man’s land – the sort of trackless waste perfect for keeping two belligerent peoples apart? During the course of his journey Ian Crofton considers a number of questions how ‘natural’ are borderlines? Sometimes they follow physical barriers, sometimes an arbitrary line on a map, the compromise made by some committee of distant diplomats.

publisher:

Birlinn

pages:

272p

Publication Date:

2014 September

format:

Paperback; 215 x 135mm

ISBN:

978-1780273082