Cover art for The Marches
Published
Random House Uk, September 2017
ISBN
9780099581895
Format
Softcover, 368 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 13cm × 2.4cm

The Marches Border walks with my father

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MP and travel writer Rory Stewart traverses the borderlands between England and Scotland, musing on history, memory and landscape

'This is travel writing at its best.'

Katherine Norbury, Observer

An Observer Book of the Year

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF POLITICS ON THE EDGE

Rory Stewart and his father are undertaking their final walk together along the Marches - the frontier that divides Scotland and England.

'Travel writing at its best' OBSERVER

'Profoundly moving' SPECTATOR

On their six-hundred-mile, thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, reflect on Burmese honey-bears, and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son.

'A bewitching book' SUNDAY TIMES

'An unforgettable tale' NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

'Deeply moving, honest and loving' COUNTRY LIFE

GUARDIAN READERS' BOOK OF THE YEAR

OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE HUNTER DAVIES LAKELAND PRIZE

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