MIDDLELAND: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDERS (PB)

Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as the MP of Britain’s most rural constituency. Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper, Middleland is an unforgettable portrait of rural Britain today – a place caught in tensions between farming and the natural world, between the need to preserve and to grow, between local and national politics – as well as an evocation of the history, people and landscape of Cumbria.