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Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
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"Out on the estuary a slab of land had separated itself from the horizon and was moving closer"
Shortlisted for the New Angle Prize 2019
In 2016 Tom Bolton set out on a mission to walk the long, winding coastline of Essex — from Purfleet on the Thames Estuary to the Suffolk border.
Low Country records his probing, hallucinatory journeys along crumbling sea-walls and through retail parks, past abandoned military forts and plotlands. He uncovers an ancient battlefield upstream from a decommissioned nuclear power station, visits England's most deprived community and treks the remote and beautiful Dengie peninsula in search of forgotten stories.
In the treacherous mudflats and coastal resorts of England's eastern edge, an alternative vision begins to emerge, shaken by Brexit and the rise of new, populist politics in Britain and America. In this low country of vast horizons, where land and sea are in constant flux, Bolton discovers a hidden history of invasion, resistance and radical thinking. A timely new book from the celebrated author of London's Lost Rivers and Vanished City, Low Country repositions the edgelands of Essex at the political and imaginative heart of England.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 16, 2018
ISBN9781908058706
Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
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Tom Bolton

Tom Bolton is an author and essayist based in London. He is the author of Camden Town: Dreams of Another London (British Library Publications, 2017), Vanished City (Strange Attractor, 2014) and London’s Lost Rivers: A Walkers Guide (Strange Attractor, 2011). He has recently completed his PhD at Univesity College London and works as an academic and policy researcher on cities, places, landscape and culture. He has lectured for Royal Geographical Society and Science Museum Lates, appeared across BBC Radio and written articles for the Guardian and Daily Telegraph.

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