The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland

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His father was certainly a remarkable man: soldier, scholar, linguist, diplomat, and intelligence officer, and he lived a long and active life.

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Moreover, Stewart combines his trekking observations with a tribute to his father -- a man who was an amazing example of a certain vigorous type of polymath and adventurer spawned by the British Empire -- and a deeply moving, bittersweet testimonial to the unusually close relationship between father and son.Unfortunately, his dad was too elderly for the endeavor, and passed away before the book was completed. The second part of the book is a walk that he takes from his home in Cumbria to his father’s house in Broich. The book is a fascinating study of nationalism and made me realize how many of our ideas about nations and nationality are recent inventions, and more invention than anything else.

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Uit elke zin blijkt de liefde en de eerbied die zij voor elkaar voelen en dit wordt zéér goed overgebracht en mooi verwoord.In the second portion of the book he sets out by himself to walk from his home in the north of England to his ancestral home and father in Crieff on the edge of the Highlands. follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. His writing is inconsistent at times and this can disengage the reader - details of the people he meets and the history of places he travels through are either too lengthy or too sketchy. I took a special interest in this section since he was walking through the areas that my infamous Armstrong ancestors lived in. I thought this would be an interesting read about a man's life in conjunction with his findings on a long walk across the U.