Full name: The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times

Author: Alistair Moffat Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781780275543 9781841584669 1780275544 1841584665

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. Similar books: The Faded Map by Alistair Moffat The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Congo by David Van Reybrouck The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel Troublemakers by Leslie Berlin The Rich Don't Always Win by Sam Pizzigati Bird Woman by J. W. Schultz Champion Hill by Timothy B. Smith The Weight of Vengeance by Troy Bickham Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by Corey Ford