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Graham Robb

The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England

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Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, near the banks of a river that once marked the southern boundary of the legendary Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land served as a buffer between Scotland and England. It was once the bloodiest region in the country, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and James V. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be brought under the control of the state. Today, it has vanished from the map and its boundaries are matters of myth and generational memo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-28532-1
  • EAN: 9780393285321
  • Produktnummer: 24196688
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.0 cm 658 g
  • Gewicht: 658

Über den Autor


Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.

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