Author : Paddy Dillon
Publisher : Cicerone Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781852844981
A handy pocket sized guidebook for anyone planning to walk the Reivers Way. Follow in the footsteps of the border reivers on this 150 mile route running from Corbridge to Alnmouth. The reivers route wanders through wild and scenic parts of Northumberland, and can be walked in 9 days. The book also includes variants and alternative routes.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 085790115X
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and Scotland, Borderers suffered at the hands of marauding armies, who ravaged the land, destroying crops, slaughtering cattle, burning settlements and killing indiscriminately. Forced by extreme circumstances, many Borderers took to reiving to ensure the survival of their families and communities, and for the best part of 300 years, countless raiding parties made their way over the border. The story of the Reivers is one of survival, stealth, treachery, ingenuity and deceit, expertly brought to life in Alistair Moffat's acclaimed book.
Author : Rachel Crolla
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1783627220
A guidebook to the 280km (173 mile) Reivers cycle route (NCN 10) across northern England. This long-distance coast-to-coast cycle between Whitehaven and Tynemouth is suitable for both first-time and experienced cyclists and can be ridden in 4 days. The route offers both on and off-road cycling and is suitable for cyclists using touring or hybrid bikes. Presented in 4 stages between 55-82km (34-51 miles) An alternate 241km (150 mile) Borderers Ride from Gretna to Berwick-upon-Tweed is also described Route passes through the northern Lake District, Northumberland National Park and North Tynedale, as well as through Kershope Forest and around Kielder Water Overnight stops include Carlisle, Bailey Mill and Bellingham Route is described west-east but a summary description is also provided for those wanting to cycle in the opposite direction 1:100,000 mapping and profiles are included for each route
Author : Keith Durham
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849081931
Stretching from the North Sea to the Solway Firth, the Border region has a sharply diverse landscape and was a battleground for over 300 years as the English and Scottish monarchs encouraged their subjects to conduct raids across their respective borders. This Warrior title will detail how this narrow strip of land influenced the Borderer's way of life in times of war. Covering every aspect of militant life, from the choice of weapons and armor to the building of fortified houses, this book gives the readers a chance to understand what it must have been like to live life in a late-medieval war zone.
Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0007474288
From the author of the famous ‘Flashman Papers’ and the ‘Private McAuslan’ stories.
Author : Glynnis Campbell
Publisher : Glynnis Campbell
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 163480029X
Author : Mike Routledge
Publisher : Matador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Border reivers
ISBN : 9781838595272
Woven around true events, an adventure story based in Carlisle and the Borders during the Great War. The story of an ageing Border Reiver's last raid before peace descends on the Borders until, with the coming of war, a new raider emerges whose acts of violence and terror leave a new generation of families 'bereaved'.
Author : Harvey Map Services
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Bicycle touring
ISBN : 9781851373932
Author : Jackie Barbosa
Publisher : Circe PRess
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This short story (8,500 words or 25-30 pages, depending on your ereader) was originally published in the Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance. Excerpts from The Lesson Plan and Hot Under the Collar, also by Jackie Barbosa, are included at the end. Note: It is the author's intention to offer this book for free. If it is not currently free on Amazon, you can download a copy in mobi (Kindle) format at no charge from Smashwords or All Romance eBooks. COVER COPY Duncan Maxwell, laird of Lochmorton Castle, gets the shock of his life when he discovers the reiver captured in a raid on his lands is not a boy, but a young woman. Although she flatly refuses to tell him her name or how she came to be riding with a raiding party, Duncan cannot countenance imprisoning a woman in his dungeon but neither can he release her without compensation. Unable to ransom her back to her family, he treats her as an honored—though exceptionally well-supervised—guest. He takes to calling her Reva and determines to seduce the truth of her identity from her. There’s just one problem—the reiver may steal his heart before he can reveal her secrets.
Author : Ted Liddle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2021-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781916237650
