{"product_id":"edge-of-england-landfall-in-lincolnshire-9781787386983","title":"Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire","description":"Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county-and one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCanute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and reformers-Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John Wesley-as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have been inspired-including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and Tennyson-while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest, from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the little-known land itself-an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerek Turner (derek-turner.com) is an Irish-born, Lincolnshire-resident novelist and reviewer. He has written for \u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Lady\u003c\/em\u003e; his poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eQuadrant\u003c\/em\u003e. This book draws on twenty years exploring and reading about Lincolnshire.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hurst \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389099479314,"sku":"9781787386983","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0004fa0e-be5e-4f98-ac9b-f6fc202d174c.jpg?v=1728915798","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edge-of-england-landfall-in-lincolnshire-9781787386983","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}