The debatable land : the lost world between Scotland and England / Graham Robb.
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TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018Edition: First American editionDescription: x, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393285321
- 0393285324
- 941.3/7Â 23
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Fort Scott Public Library | Adult Books | 941.3 Robb (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35326000440634 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-316) and index.
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.
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.
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