Fringed With Mud & Pearls by Ian Crofton

Fringed With Mud & Pearls by Ian Crofton

In this book, prizewinning writer and historian Ian Crofton embarks on a personal odyssey to the islands encircling England, exploring how some were places of refuge or holiness, while others have become locations for prisons, rubbish dumps or military installations.

'A fascinating and charming reverie on the impermanence of our Island’s islands'

-- Tony Robinson, star of Blackadder and Time Team

'There is real poise and poetry in [Crofton's] writing, sentences that lift the reader's spirit like the extraordinary power of the birds'

-- Donald S Murray * Stornoway Gazette *

'In 2014 Ian Crofton followed England’s northern frontier with ScotlandNow he turns to the country's other edges, specifically to those parts that have become detached – including Lindisfarne and the Isle of Wight, Eel Pie Island and the Isles of Scilly'

* Telegraph *

'a fascinating study about what it means to exist on the fringes'

* Coast Magazine, Book of the Month *

'A really engaging…armchair-travel read'

* BBC Countryfile Magazine *

'A companionable and oddly compulsive book... Ian Crofton throws himself into this eclectic collection of islands with gusto, finding fascinating tales to share even from the most benighted urban backwaters.'

* The Scottish Mountaineer *

Ian Crofton was born and raised in Edinburgh, and now lives in London. He has written a number of works of popular history, including A Curious History of Food and Drink and Scottish History without the Boring Bits. His Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable was described by the Times Literary Supplement as 'a lightly erudite and well-informed work of eclectic scholarship'. In 2014 the Daily Telegraph selected his Walking the Border as one of its travel books of the year. Ian Crofton also contributes regularly to the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, and in 2015 was awarded the Club's W.H. Murray Literary Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781780276656
ISBN 10	1780276656
Title	Fringed With Mud & Pearls
Author	Ian Crofton
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2021-05-06
Number of pages	288
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