A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? - 3000 BC-AD 1603 v.1 (Vol 1)
By Simon Schama.
Description
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,...
ISBN(s)
0563487143, 9780563487142
