Battle valleys
Subtitle: a portrait of the Border
By: Ronald Turnbull
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780711232297
Subjects: Pictorial works; History
Description: Every valley has its battle, and every stream its song - Walter Scott. For three hundred years the reivers' country of the Border was an enclave between England and Scotland with its own laws, its own ethics, and an economy based on theft, blackmail and kidnapping for ransom. -- Publisher.
Notes: Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Scottish West March; title: The debateable land; title: English West March; title: Scottish Middle March; title: Cheviot Hills; title: English Middle March; title: Scottish East March: the merse; title: English East March; title: Looking back along the border.