Frontier Country

Paperback
June 2004
9781854182142
More details
  • Publisher
    THO
  • Published
    1st June 2004
  • ISBN 9781854182142
  • Language English
  • Pages 240 pp.
  • Size 6.25" x 9.25"
$17.95

Essex is a county of contrasts and surprises, far removed from the jokes and clichés surrounding it. Journalist Brian Mooney and artist Jon Harris set out to celebrate its people, history, architecture and geography by walking every inch of its boundaries. Whether tramping up the Maplin Sands, stumbling across an old soldier living wild in the woods, or visiting a chapel on a lonely seawall, their story is brimming with unexpected encounters and colourful surprises. Starting in Waltham Abbey, their walk takes them down the old Essex border into London, along the Thames to the marshes, rivers and creeks of the eastern seaboard and then follows the Suffolk borders to the edges of Cambridge and Hertfordshire.

"Essex must be the most unjustly abused county in England. Its reputation is pure snobbery... Essex is a land of rolling hills, wild marshes and delightful villages, churches nd old houses....its borders embrace the most varied topography imaginable. This is the Essex that Frontier Country explores; the authors' unusual journey reveals just how much there is to treasure in Essex."

Simon Jenkins - Columnist and Former Editor of The Times

"Essex must be the most unjustly abused county in England. Its reputation is pure snobbery... Essex is a land of rolling hills, wild marshes and delightful villages, churches nd old houses....its borders embrace the most varied topography imaginable. This is the Essex that Frontier Country explores; the authors' unusual journey reveals just how much there is to treasure in Essex."

Simon Jenkins - Columnist and Former Editor of The Times

Jon Harris

Jon Harris is a leading authority on landscape, townscape and conservation, and a well known Cambridgeshire artist. The Fitzwilliam Museum held a retrospective exhibition of his work in 1997.

Brian Mooney

Brian Mooney is a prize-winning international journalist and author of three books. He worked for Reuters for 30 years, covering events in more than 50 countries. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and awarded an American Press Club Award for his work in Poland during the Solidarity Revolution. In recent years he has worked in high-profile international PR assignments in Russia, Bangladesh and India. He has published: Breaking News (Wiley), a business book about the near-collapse of Reuters; Frontier Country (Thorogood), a light-hearted account of a walk around the borders of Essex; A Long Way for a Pizza and Shaping History (Arcturus), a study of great leaders.