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Author Robb, Graham, 1958- author.

Title The debatable land : the lost world between Scotland and England / Graham Robb.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  941 ROBB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.37 ROBB    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  941.3 ROBB    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  941.37 ROB    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.05 ROB    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  941.05 ROBB    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  941.05 ROBB    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  941.37 ROB    Check Shelf
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.
Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History, Military.
Boundaries -- History.
Genre/Form Nonfiction.
ISBN 0393285324
9780393285321
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