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Title The debatable land [electronic resource eBook] : the lost world between Scotland and England / Graham Robb.


BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-316) and index.
CITED IN LJ 05/15/2018.
PW 04/16/2018.
Kirkus 04/01/2018.
Contents Hidden places -- Outpost -- Panic button -- The true and ancient border -- "The sewer of abandoned men" -- Mouldywarp -- Beachcombing -- Blind roads -- Harrowed -- "Loveable custumis" -- Accelerated transhumance -- Skurrlywarble -- Exploratores -- Windy edge -- "In tymis bigane" -- "Stob and staik" -- "Rube, burne, spoyll, slaye, murder annd destrewe" -- The final partition -- Hector of ye Harlawe -- Scrope -- Tarras Moss -- "A factious and naughty people" -- Silence -- Graticules -- The Kingdom of Selgovia -- "Arthur" -- The great Caledonian invasion -- Polling stations -- No man's land -- The river.
Summary An award-winning historian and biographer describes his firsthand investigation into the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy, which led him to more than one discovery of major historical significance in the once-hotly contested Debatable Land territory.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: Adobe EPUB eBook.
Format: Kindle Book.
Format: OverDrive Read.
Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle.
Other edition Reproduction of (manifestation): Robb, Graham, 1958- Debatable land London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillian, 2018 9781509804689.
Original 9780393285321
Subject Boundaries -- History.
Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History.
Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History, Military.
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9780393285338
STANDARD # 0ADBC076-1FF3-4C03-AD21-53F71E764EB4 OverDrive
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