The Road
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early
contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday
Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath
away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a
lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans
built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where
battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in
Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look.
In the beginning was Watling Street, the first road scored on the
land when the invading Romans arrived on a cold and alien Kentish
shore in 43 CE.Campaign roads rolled out to all points of the
compass, forcing their way inland and as the Britons fell back, the
roads pursued them relentlessly, carrying troops, supplies and
military despatches. In the years of fighting that followed, as the
legions pushed onwards across what is now England, into Wales and
north into Scotland in search of booty, mineral wealth, land and
tribute, they left behind a vast road network, linking marching
camps and forts, changing the landscape, etching the story of the
Roman advance into the face of the land, channelling our lives
today. Christopher Hadley, acclaimed author of Hollow Places, takes
us on a lyrical journey into this past, retracing and searching for
an elusive Roman road that sprang from one of the busiest road hubs
in Roman Britain.His passage is not always easy. Time and nature
have erased many clues, bridges rotted and whole woods grew across
the route. Carters found an easier ford downstream, and people
broke up its milestones to mend new paths.Year after year the heavy
clay swallowed whole lengths of it, the once mighty road became a
bridleway, an overgrown hollow-way, a parched mark in the soil.
Hadley leads us on a hunt to discover, in Hilaire Belloc’s phrase,
‘all that has arisen along the way’. Gathering traces of
archaeology, history and landscape from poems, church walls, hag
stones and cropmarks, oxlips, killing places, hauntings and
immortals, and things buried too deep for archaeology, The Road is
a mesmerising journey into two thousand years of history only now
giving up its secrets.
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William Collins ,
Christopher Hadley
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William Collins,
Christopher Hadley
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