Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire by Corinne Fowler #literature desolate beauty of the desert

desolate beauty of the desert

The fourth book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Corsica and Chianti

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall

made by her father to teach her the way home

Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire by Corinne Fowler #literature desolate beauty of the desertThe countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together, with transformative results. Through ten country walks