A History of Britain Volume 1 - At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
Author(s): Simon Schama
Secondhand.
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history. At its heart lie questions of compelling importance for Britain's future as well as its past: what makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?
Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives, depicted in Schama's brilliant portrait of the life of the British people.
BBC Books, Reprint. A fine, unmarked copy in a very good, unclipped d/w with light edge wear and bookseller price stickers to the rear panel.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : BBC
- : bbc
- : 2.85
- : 31 August 2003
- : 1.25000mm X 7.75000mm X 9.75000mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 352
- : very good
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Simon Schama