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Low Country : Brexit on the Essex Coast

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Author: Bolton, Tom

Prose: non-fiction

Published on 30 October 2018 by Penned in the Margins in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 250 pages, Photography by Tom Bolton and maps illustrated by Oliver Barrett
210 x 145 x 23 | 396g

‘Out on the estuary a slab of land had separated itself from the horizon and was moving closer’Shortlisted for the New Angle Prize 2019In 2016 Tom Bolton set out on a mission to walk the long, winding coastline of Essex — from Purfleet on the Thames Estuary to the Suffolk border.

Low Country records his probing, hallucinatory journeys along crumbling sea-walls and through retail parks, past abandoned military forts and plotlands. He uncovers an ancient battlefield upstream from a decommissioned nuclear power station, visits England’s most deprived community and treks the remote and beautiful Dengie peninsula in search of forgotten stories.

In the treacherous mudflats and coastal resorts of England’s eastern edge, an alternative vision begins to emerge, shaken by Brexit and the rise of new, populist politics in Britain and America. In this low country of vast horizons, where land and sea are in constant flux, Bolton discovers a hidden history of invasion, resistance and radical thinking. A timely new book from the celebrated author of London’s Lost Rivers and Vanished City, Low Country repositions the edgelands of Essex at the political and imaginative heart of England.

SKU: '9781908058591 Category:

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Weight0.396 kg
Dimensions21 × 14.5 × 2.3 cm

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