The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times - Hardcover

Moffat, Alistair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954197909 ISBN 13: 9780954197902

Publisher: Deerpark Press, 2002

Synopsis

This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. It is the story of England and Scotland, told not from the remoteness of London or Edinburgh or in the tired terms of national histories, but up close and personal, toe to toe and eyeball to eyeball across the tweed, the Cheviots, the Esk and the tidal races of the upper Solway. This is a tale told in blood, fun and granite-hard memory. This is the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior, where Celtic warlords ruled, the Romans came but could not conquer, where the glittering kingdom of Northumbria thrived, the place where David MacMalcolm raised great abbeys, where the border rivers rode into history, and where Walter Scott sat at Abbotsford and brooded on the area's rich and historic legacy.

About this title

Review:

'Quirky, learned and utterly absorbing' -- Allan Massie 'Highly readable - a lively, clear style' * Northern History *

About the Author:

Alistair Moffat was born and raised in Kelso. He took degrees at the universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh and London and played rugby for Kelso and his universities. In 1976 he took charge of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as it grew into the largest arts festival in the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Deerpark Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0954197909
• ISBN 13: 9780954197902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 468