Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders

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Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as MP for Britain’s most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in th e 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, Middleland is an urgent and inspiring 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.These are stories of beauty and ingenuity, which also show us what a better politics might look like. Show more