Edition |
First American edition. |
Description |
x, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-316) and indexes. |
Contents |
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 tymes 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. |
Summary |
Explores the history of the Debatable Land, the former buffer between Scotland and England and once upon a time the bloodiest region in the country. |
Subject |
Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History.
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Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History, Military.
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Boundaries -- History.
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Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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ISBN |
0393285324 |
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9780393285321 |
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