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The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and Britain. At the level of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James V. Following the Union of the Crowns, most of its people was slaughtered or deported, and it became the previous area of the country to be brought under the control of the state. Today, its history has been forgotten or overlooked. When Graham Robb migrated to a lonely house on the edge of Britain, he discovered that the river which almost surrounded his new home acquired once marked the Debatable Land's southern boundary. Beneath the powerful spell of interest, Robb started a trip - by walking, by bi-cycle and into the past - that could uncover lost towns and roads, show the truth about this maligned patch of land and lead to several finding of major historical value. Rich in information and epic in scope, The Debatable Land takes us from a time when neither Britain nor Scotland could be thought to the present day, when modern day nationalism and political turmoil threaten to unsettle the cross-border community once again.
