PublishedBirlinn Ltd, July 2017 |
ISBN9781780274638 |
FormatSoftcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions19.5cm × 13cm × 2cm |
Based on exciting new research involving the largest sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair Moffat, author of the bestselling The
Scots: A Genetic Journey, shows how all of us who live on these islands are immigrants. The last ice age erased any trace of more ancient
inhabitants, and the ancestors of everyone who now lives in Britain came here after the glaciers retreated and the land greened once more. In
an epic narrative, sometimes moving, sometimes astonishing, always revealing, Moffat writes an entirely new history of Britain. Instead of the
usual parade of the usual suspects - kings, queens, saints, warriors and the notorious - this is a people's history, a narrative made from stories
only DNA can tell which offers insights into who we are and where we come from.
