STORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN 100 PLACES

Neil Oliver’s personal account of what makes Britain and Ireland special, told through the places that have witnessed the unfolding of their history. Beginning with footprints made in the sand by humankind’s earliest ancestors, he takes us through Romans and Vikings, the flowering of Christianity, civil war, industrial revolution and two world wars. From windswept headlands to battlefields, ancient trees to magnificent cathedrals, each of his destinations is a place where, somehow, the spirit of the past seems to linger.