Debatable Land - Dispatches from the Borders

Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as a MP of Britain''s most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in the beauty of its landscape, its rugged history as a frontierland, and in the spirit of its people. Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper, Debatable Land is an unforgettable portrait of rural Britain today - a place caught in tensions between farming and the natural world, between the need to preserve and to grow, between local and national politics - as well as a timeless evocation of the history, people and landscape of Cumbria.

Product details

• Authors: Rory Stewart, Stewart Rory
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.10.2025
• EAN: 9781787336247
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-624-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Cumbria, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Rural communities, The environment, Reportage & collected journalism, Agriculture and farming, Social attitudes, c 2010 to c 2019, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Political ideologies and movements, Regional government