The Britannias av Alice Albinia

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR<br><br>''A dazzlingly brilliant book'' Hannah Dawson<br><br>''Fascinating, often exhilarating</b><b>...</b><b>Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide</b>'' <i><b>TLS</b></i><br><br><i>The Britannias </i>tells the story of Britain''s islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche.<br><br>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, <i>Britanniae</i>. 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.<br><br>The ancient mythology of islands ruled by women winds through the literature of the British Isles - from Roman colonial-era reports, to early Irish poetry, Renaissance drama to Restoration utopias - transcending and subverting the most