Rob Cowen 2 Books Collection Set North Road (HB), Common Ground

Name: Rob Cowen 2 Books Collection Set North Road (HB), Common Ground
Brand: Rob Cowen

Rob Cowen

Description:. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Mixed Lot. The North Road: ‘A haunting exploration of time, place and memory along the road to London-Edinburgh highway. Radical. Beautiful. Brilliant.’ Robert Macfarlane Hardcover. 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..... Common Ground: One of Britain’s Favourite Nature Books as featured on BBC’s Winterwatch. Digging deeper into this lost landscape, he begins to uncover its...