The Marches

This father-and-son trek through the history and landscape of the United Kingdom is “ a sensitive exploration of what borders mean and don’t mean” ( The Wall Street Journal ). In The Places in Between , Rory Stewart walked some of the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he travels with his eighty-nine-year-old father—a comical, wily, courageous, and infuriating former British intelligence officer—along the border they call home. On Stewart’s four-hundred-mile walk across a magnificent n