The Britannias by Alice Albinia
The Britannias by Alice Albinia
SKU: 9781846149115 • Barcode: 9781846149115

The Britannias

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: European history
  • Genre / subject: Historical geography
  • Author: Alice Albinia
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Britannias by Alice Albinia is a history book for adult readers.

The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape. The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term, Britanniae.

Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past to understand the present, this book knocks the centre out to foreground neglected epics and subversive voices. The ancient mythology of islands ruled by women winds through the literature of the British Isles - from Roman colonial-era reports, to early Irish poetry, Renaissance drama to Restoration utopias - transcending and subverting the most male-fixated of ages.

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