The North Road by Rob Cowen (.ePUB)
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The North Road by Rob Cowen
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Overview: At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years.
In this genre-defying and profoundly personal book, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end on a journey through history, place, people and time. Weaving his own histories and memories with the layered landscapes he moves through, this is the story of an age, of coming to terms with time past and time passing, and the roads that lead us to where we find ourselves.
Written in kaleidoscopic prose, The North Road is an unforgettable exploration of Britain’s great highway.
- “Haunted and haunting: Cowen tracks the London−Edinburgh highway in a mesmerising exploration of time, place, memory and identity. A dazzlingly inventive work of literature.”
Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways
”A wonderful, epic braiding of history, geography and personal memoir”
James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral
”Stunning…weaving an intricate tapestry of tarmac, humanity and time, as rich as the dark earth on which his many threads lie. It will stay with me.”
Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path
Genre: Non-Fiction > General Great Britain, Travel
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