{"product_id":"9780008394394","title":"Storm’s Edge : Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Marshall, Peter \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 11\/04\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 560 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008394394,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storm’s Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that dives deep into island politics, the evolution of folklore, and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Peter Marshall was born in Orkney, his ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday – where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch. Merging his local experience with wider historical expertise, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has been treated as a mere footnote, remote and peripheral, and in doing so invites us to think differently about key events of British history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With Orkney as our point of departure, Marshall traverses three centuries of dramatic religious, political and economic upheaval; a time during which what we think of as modern Scotland, and then modern Britain, was being forged and tested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What happens to our understanding of Scotland and Britain when they are viewed from the perspective of their island edge?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42662101745708,"sku":"9780008394394","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9780008394394.jpg?v=1708333248","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780008394394","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}