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Taylor, Dan (2016). Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain. London: Repeater Books.
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Abstract
No other subject has spilt so much ink as Britain today.
But whilst assuming a monopoly on national identity, a London-based elite has proven a poor forecaster of the political weather around the island. Sceptical and inquisitive, Taylor instead cycled all round Britain, interviewing and staying with strangers from all walks of life. Without a map and travelling with the most basic of kit, the journey revels in serendipity and schadenfreude. Island Story weaves histories, experiences and ideas to tell another kind of story: one of rebellion and retail parks, migration and inertia, pessimism and disappearing ways of life, and a fiery, unrealised desire for collective belonging and power. Think you know the island? Island Story will have you think again.
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- Item ORO ID
- 71769
- Item Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1-910924-20-2, 978-1-910924-20-4
- Extra Information
- Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2017
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Politics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Citizenship and Governance
- Depositing User
- Dan Taylor