A History of the World in 47 Borders Spark Muriel and at the time of

and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values

Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger

Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer’s fine prize cow

and growing up

A History of the World in 47 Borders Spark Muriel and at the time ofPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does and about the