Title:
The debatable land : the lost world between Scotland and England
Author:
Robb, Graham, 1958- author.
ISBN:
9780393285321
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Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2018.
Physical Description:
x, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm.
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.
Abstract:
Explores the history of the Debatable Land, the former buffer between Scotland and England and once upon a time the bloodiest region in the country.
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