The Britannias: An Island Quest

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Shortlisted for the 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards



Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year






'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson



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 British mythology of islands ruled by women runs like a secret, hidden river through the literature of this land - from Roman colonial-era reports to early Welsh poetry, Renaissance drama to Restoration utopias - transcending and subverting the most male-fixated of ages. The Britannias looks far back into the past for direction and solace, while searching for new meaning about women's status in the body politic. Boldly upturning established truths about Britain, it pays homage to the islands' beauty, independence and their suppressed or forgotten histories.
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Weight 0.750000
Author Albinia, Alice
Availability OP
Department History
Format Hardback
ISBN 9780241669631
Pages 320
Published 19/10/2023
Publisher Penguin
Section History
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