Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author Graham Robb turns his attention on his homeland for the first time in this beautifully written and ground-breaking book.
Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author Graham Robb turns his attention on his homeland for the first time in this beautifully written and ground-breaking book.
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians (2010) the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
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Section i: List of Illustrations Section ii: List of Figures Section iii: A Guide to Pronunciation Unit 1: PART ONE Chapter 1: Hidden Places Chapter 2: Outpost Chapter 3: Panic Button Chapter 4: The True and Ancient Border Chapter 5: 'The Sewer of Abandoned Men' Chapter 6: Mouldywarp Chapter 7: Beachcombing Unit 2: PART TWO Chapter 8: Blind Roads Chapter 9: Harrowed Chapter 10: 'Loveable Custumis' Chapter 11: Accelerated Transhumance Chapter 12: Skurrlywarble Chapter 13: Exploratores Chapter 14: Windy Edge Chapter 15: 'In Tymis Bigane' Unit 3: PART THREE Chapter 16: 'Stob and Staik' Chapter 17: 'Rube, Burne, Spoyll, Slaye, Murder annd Destrewe' Chapter 18: The Final Partition Chapter 19: Hector of ye Harlawe Chapter 20: Scrope Chapter 21: Tarras Moss Chapter 22: 'A Factious and Naughty People' Chapter 23: Silence Unit 4: PART FOUR Chapter 24: Graticules Chapter 25: The Kingdom of Selgovia Chapter 26: 'Arthur' Chapter 27: The Great Caledonian Invasion Chapter 28: Polling Stations Chapter 29: No Man's Land Chapter 30: The River Section iv: Appendix Section v: Chronology Section vi: Notes Section vii: Works Cited Index viii: General Index Index ix: Geographical Index Acknowledgements x: Acknowledgements
Section i: List of Illustrations Section ii: List of Figures Section iii: A Guide to Pronunciation Unit 1: PART ONE Chapter 1: Hidden Places Chapter 2: Outpost Chapter 3: Panic Button Chapter 4: The True and Ancient Border Chapter 5: 'The Sewer of Abandoned Men' Chapter 6: Mouldywarp Chapter 7: Beachcombing Unit 2: PART TWO Chapter 8: Blind Roads Chapter 9: Harrowed Chapter 10: 'Loveable Custumis' Chapter 11: Accelerated Transhumance Chapter 12: Skurrlywarble Chapter 13: Exploratores Chapter 14: Windy Edge Chapter 15: 'In Tymis Bigane' Unit 3: PART THREE Chapter 16: 'Stob and Staik' Chapter 17: 'Rube, Burne, Spoyll, Slaye, Murder annd Destrewe' Chapter 18: The Final Partition Chapter 19: Hector of ye Harlawe Chapter 20: Scrope Chapter 21: Tarras Moss Chapter 22: 'A Factious and Naughty People' Chapter 23: Silence Unit 4: PART FOUR Chapter 24: Graticules Chapter 25: The Kingdom of Selgovia Chapter 26: 'Arthur' Chapter 27: The Great Caledonian Invasion Chapter 28: Polling Stations Chapter 29: No Man's Land Chapter 30: The River Section iv: Appendix Section v: Chronology Section vi: Notes Section vii: Works Cited Index viii: General Index Index ix: Geographical Index Acknowledgements x: Acknowledgements
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