Walking the Border
A Journey Between Scotland and England
by Ian Crofton
£9.99
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ISBN: 9781780273082
Published: 16 Jul 2015
Format: Paperback
Extent: 272
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Imprint:
Birlinn
Categories:
Travel writing, adventure, & guide books
Travel writing, adventure, & guide books
About the Book
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.