A History Of Britain. At The Edge Of The World 3000B.C-AD1603

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 416 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Schama Paints His Brilliant Portrait Of The Life Of The British People.

Publishers 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, 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.

ISBN: 9780563384977