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The Marches

byRory Stewart

Border walks with my father

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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 and around the Eden Valley of Cumbria for ten years, serving as the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He is half Scottish and half English. He is the author of several prize-winning and bestselling books including The Places in Between, a New York Times bestseller, and, most recently, Politics On the Edge, a no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Stewart is currently Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the co-host of the leading UK 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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