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Signed copies available to pre-order. (Publication date 30th October.)
From the no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge comes an unforgettable portrait of Cumbria and the British countryside today.
Politics on the Edge was a no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller for 17 weeks, was
in the top 10 for 49 weeks, and has sold over 600k copies
His new book takes Rory back to where his career began, writing about
countryside, history, rural communities and what he discovers by exploring
the land on foot.
A timely exploration of rural tensions that asks urgent questions about the
future of our landscape and countryside, and is sure to generate publicity.
Based on his columns written for the local newspaper, this shows us
the other side of the life of a rural MP – a world away from the backstabbing
world of Westminster of Politics on the Edge.
For readers who care about the countryside, Cumbria and Northumberland,
or politics – a beautifully produced hardback for gifting or self-gifting.
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.
THE AUTHOR
Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International
Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister
for Development, Environment Minister and Chair of the Defence Committee. He
ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019.
Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a
diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity
in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University. His 21-month 6,000
mile walk across Asia, including Afghanistan, is recorded in his New York
Times bestseller, The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational
Hazards, The Marches and Politics on the Edge, which was a number one
Sunday Times bestseller.
Stewart is now the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy
at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Afairs, a senior adviser at the
non-profit organisation GiveDirectly, and the co-host with Alastair Campbel of
the UK’s leading podcast The Rest Is Politics. He tweets at @RoryStewartUK.
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Signed copies available to pre-order. (Publication date 30th October.)
From the no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge comes an unforgettable portrait of Cumbria and the British countryside today.
Politics on the Edge was a no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller for 17 weeks, was
in the top 10 for 49 weeks, and has sold over 600k copies
His new book takes Rory back to where his career began, writing about
countryside, history, rural communities and what he discovers by exploring
the land on foot.
A timely exploration of rural tensions that asks urgent questions about the
future of our landscape and countryside, and is sure to generate publicity.
Based on his columns written for the local newspaper, this shows us
the other side of the life of a rural MP – a world away from the backstabbing
world of Westminster of Politics on the Edge.
For readers who care about the countryside, Cumbria and Northumberland,
or politics – a beautifully produced hardback for gifting or self-gifting.
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.
THE AUTHOR
Rory Stewart served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for International
Development, and before that as Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, Minister
for Development, Environment Minister and Chair of the Defence Committee. He
ran against Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2019.
Earlier in his career he was briefly in the British Army, before serving as a
diplomat in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, establishing and running a charity
in Afghanistan, and holding a chair at Harvard University. His 21-month 6,000
mile walk across Asia, including Afghanistan, is recorded in his New York
Times bestseller, The Places in Between. His other books include Occupational
Hazards, The Marches and Politics on the Edge, which was a number one
Sunday Times bestseller.
Stewart is now the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy
at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Afairs, a senior adviser at the
non-profit organisation GiveDirectly, and the co-host with Alastair Campbel of
the UK’s leading podcast The Rest Is Politics. He tweets at @RoryStewartUK.
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