Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England
Ian Crofton, "Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780273088, 1780272073 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6.5 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780273088, 1780272073 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6.5 MB
In this book Ian Crofton makes a journey on foot from Gretna Green in the southwest to Berwick in the northeast, following as close as possible the Anglo-Scottish Border as it has been fixed since the union of the crowns in 1603. Much of the line of the Border runs through a wild, overwhelmingly unvisited no man's land - the sort of trackless waste perfect for keeping two belligerent peoples apart? During the course of his journey Ian Crofton considers a number of questions how 'natural' are borderlines? Sometimes they follow physical barriers, sometimes an arbitrary line on a map, the compromise made by some committee of distant diplomats.