Islander - A Journey Around Our Archipelago (Barkham Patrick (Y))(Paperback)

Winner of the National Geographic Reader's Award 2018

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2018

Shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year 2018

'For all the islomaniacs out there, Patrick Barkham's Islander looks unmissable' Robert Macfarlane

'Brimming with nature, this is a fitting tribute to the strangeness and beauty of our British isles' Financial Times

'Islander is a charming and attractive book... his shrewd study of the islander mentality ...] could stand for the entire country' Spectator

The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes.
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