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The Marches

Border walks with my father

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF POLITICS ON THE EDGE

Rory Stewart and his father are undertaking their final walk together along the Marches – the frontier that divides Scotland and England.

‘Travel writing at its best’ OBSERVER
‘Profoundly moving’ SPECTATOR

On their six-hundred-mile, thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, reflect on Burmese honey-bears, and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son.

‘A bewitching book’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘An unforgettable tale’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

‘Deeply moving, honest and loving’ COUNTRY LIFE

GUARDIAN READERS’ BOOK OF THE YEAR
OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE HUNTER DAVIES LAKELAND PRIZE

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About Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart lived in the Eden Valley of Cumbria for ten years, serving as the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border – the largest and most sparsely populated constituency in England – much of which he explored on foot. Half Scottish and half English, he spent his childhood between Britain, Malaysia and Hong Kong. After a very brief period in the British Army, he served as a British diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University. He has also been a UK environment minister, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Minister of State for Justice and Secretary of State for International Development. His 21-month 6,000-mile walk across Asia, including Afghanistan, is recorded in his New York Times bestseller The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational Hazards, The Marches, and Politics on the Edge, which was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Stewart is now the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the co-host, with Alastair Campbell, of the UK's leading podcast The Rest Is Politics.
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9780099581895
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 296g
  • Price: £10.99
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