The Marches
August 2024
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A reflective memoir and political travelogue in which the author walks across the English-Scottish border, exploring history, landscape, and British identity.
The wall had taken 20,000 men more than a decade to build. None of the legionaries had ever been asked to build anything like it before: bisecting a country from sea to sea with 20 million cut stones. The German and African frontiers were turf. This required more stone and labour than the Pyramids.