Storm's Edge

Name: Storm's Edge
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9780008394417

Author: Peter Marshall

Narrator: Kenny Blyth

Unabridged: 22 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Collins

Published: 04/11/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History, Social Science, Folklore & Mythology, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, Social History, Nature, Ecosystems & Habitats

Synopsis

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' ' 'An astonishing tour de force’ Longlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall, winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize, is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk beliefs and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain. Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday – where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch. In an expansive and enthralling historical account, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has been treated as a mere footnote, remote and peripheral, and in doing so invites us to think differently about key events of British history. With Orkney as our point of departure, Marshall traverses three dramatic centuries of religious, political and economic upheaval: a time when what we think of as modern Scotland, and then modern Britain, was being forged and tested. Storm's Edge

About Peter Marshall

Peter Marshall is professor of history at the University of Warwick, winner of the Harold J. Grimm Prize for Reformation History, and author of numerous books, including The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in Leamington Spa, U.K.

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A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details… In , Marshall set out to ‘make the peripheral central’, and so he has' The Times 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky. A rich, sweeping, moving and often drily funny survey both of Orkney itself, and of Orkney as a vantage point from which to survey much else… Among all its many other qualities, is very moving for the pride in his homeland displayed by the author' Tom Holland 'Engrossing and near-faultless… Orkney already boasts a roll call of distinguished writers. The list has just got longer' Literary Review 'A brilliantly sweeping and gloriously detailed history of Orkney that is also a history of Britain, and ultimately of the world. Memories of the sheer pleasure it gave me are warming me still' TLS 'Peter Marshall’s new, very readable history of the archipelago is a wonderful corrective to our tendency to see Scottish history through a lowland lens… I have, I am ashamed to say, never been to Orkney. But reading Marshall’s book might just tempt me to make the journey' The Herald 'A remarkable and wonderful book — extraordinary in both scale and erudition’ Church Times