From the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge, a candid insight into the other side of political life, with urgent and inspiring stories of rural Britain today.
'A rare and life-affirming story of searching and finding our place to be and to cherish'
MICHAEL MORPURGO
'Urgent and inspiring... Deeply rooted in history and the land, personal, wise and often funny'
CAROLINE LUCAS
Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as MP for Britain's most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in the beauty of its landscape, its rugged history as a frontierland, and in the spirit of its people.
Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper, Middleland is an urgent and inspiring portrait of rural Britain today - a place caught in tensions between farming and the natural world, between the need to preserve and to grow, between local and national politics - as well as a timeless evocation of the history, people and landscape of Cumbria.
These are stories of beauty and ingenuity, which also show us what a better politics might look like.
PRAISE FOR POLITICS ON THE EDGE
'An instant classic'
MARINA HYDE
'At last a politician who can write'
SEBASTIAN FAULKS
'Beautifully written'
GUARDIAN
'Hugely entertaining'
EVENING STANDARD
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Rory Stewart has written a remarkable book about community and countryside, his community, his countryside. It is both telling and tender. He is treading in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas in his understanding of our need to belong and to contribute. A rare and life-affirming story of searching and finding our place to be and to cherish. -- Michael Morpurgo Urgent and inspiring, Middleland is at once a hymn to the beauty of the Cumbrian landscape, a testament to the spirit of its people, and a powerful argument for political reform. Deeply rooted in history and the land, personal, wise and often funny, this is a heartfelt celebration of local people and place, and an invitation to imagine a different kind of politics. -- Caroline Lucas Middleland, a portrait of largely forgotten people in a half-forgotten part of Britain, is one of his [Stewart's] quieter triumphs - but a triumph nonetheless * Literary Review * Full of intelligence and panache * Scotsman * Stewart was not your usual politician, and these eloquent articles... skilfully edited into a very readable diary, range widely across the constituency.... A serendipitous treat... [An] enjoyable book * Telegraph * A thoughtful love letter to his former constituency... He writes with a wonderful familiarity of the region... refreshingly honest * Country Life * Middleland is the latest instalment in the ongoing Rory Stewart project, which asks: what is my country, and what can I do for it?... His writing is limpid, reflective, often beautiful. * The New World * A moving, grounded look at rural Britain * i * Stewart sees Cumbria's glory... [his] writing on all these subjects combines erudition, a fine turn of phrase... disarming admissions of fallibility and a certain amount of backing into the limelight. * New Statesman * [A] fascinating and honest collection of daily anecdotes and stories of everyday folk, and of how the best intentions often end up on stony ground due to the realities of national politics * UK Press Syndication * [Stewart is] a compelling writer... [Middleland is] an intimate chronicle which should prove important for Cumbrians in the future and their political representatives * Cumbria Life *
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Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 166 mm
Dicke: 37 mm
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978-1-78733-624-7 (9781787336247)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Rory Stewart lived in and around the Eden Valley of Cumbria for ten years, serving as the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He is half Scottish and half English. He is the author of several prize-winning and bestselling books including The Places in Between, a New York Times bestseller, and, most recently, Politics On the Edge, a no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Stewart is currently Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the co-host of the leading UK podcast The Rest Is Politics.
