Finding Albion
About This Book
Zakia Sewell sets out to find another Britain. She travels the length and breadth of the island, from Somerset to Scotland, looking for a different story from the one told by divisive national myths and symbols. What she finds is an alternative spirit of Britain that remains vividly alive today, in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, Celtic seasonal rites and the mystic stone circles that dot the landscape. The journey follows the year. It opens at sunrise on the spring equinox at Glastonbury Tor, where she meets neopagans reclaiming traditions from the pre-Christian past. At the height of summer, at Notting Hill Carnival, she hears cultural echoes carried along the slave trade routes from the Caribbean. On All Hallow's Eve she meets the ghosts of Empire that still haunt the nation, and in the depths of a Cornish winter she asks whether the current folk revival could unite an increasingly divided country. Finding Albion brings a hopeful account of Britain out of the shadows. It aims to give readers a deeper sense of who they are and a promise of a brighter future.
ISBN: 9781399735902
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