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Record Nr.

UNINA9911117470103321

Autore

Morris-Campbell Jake

Titolo

Between the Salt and the Ash : A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9781526175366

1526175363

9781526175380

152617538X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages)

Disciplina

942.8

Soggetti

Travel / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- Prologue: First foot -- Introduction: Lights of the North -- Part I. The sea on sanded feet -- The compass takes its weigh -- Coastline of castles -- Salt pans and sand dunes -- The Spine Road -- Harvest from the deep -- Tirtha: Tyne -- Part II. Stringing Bedes -- Following the Don -- The Ash Path -- Ghosts of the East End -- What kingdom without common feasting? -- Light moved on -- The big meeting -- Tirtha: Wear -- Davy -- Coda -- Glossary of Northumbrian dialect terms -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.