
Walking the Border
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During the course of his walk, Ian Crofton investigates the history, literature and legend of the Border. He talks to a range of people he comes across - farmers, landladies, bar staff, anglers, labourers, shepherds, shopkeepers - to find out what they make of the Border, if anything at all. Such conversations lead to a consideration of the very nature of borders. Do they provide a necessary defence of the nationstate? Or are they, in this day and age, an affront to global justice?
Walking the Border is in the best traditions of travel writing, combining vivid description with human insight, the whole spiced with a wry sense of the absurdity and necessity of both inward and outward journeys.
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- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Conundrum: Borders, barbed wire and bonny bairns
- 2. Rumours of War: Gretna and the Solway
- 3. No One Bothers About the Border: Sark, Scots' Dike and the Waverley Line
- 4. Waste Ground Without Habitation: Penton to Scotch Knowe
- 5. Utter Desolation: Scotch Knowe to Deadwater
- 6. Amongst these English Alps: Peel Fell to Carter Bar
- 7. A True Perambulation between the Kingdoms: Kirk Yetholm to the Tweed
- 8. Grey Waving Hills: Carter Bar to Chew Green
- 9. The Bonny Road: Coquet Head to Clennell Street
- 10. Moss-Hags and Oozy Peat-Flats: Skirting the Cheviot
- 11. Until the Night Came Upon Them: Flodden Interlude
- 12. A Pleasant Pastoral Stream Coldstream: to Horncliffe
- 13. Across the Hill of Pigs: Horncliffe to the Sea Index
- Index
- Plate Section
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