The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

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This is no dry and prosaic history, but a work of imagination and a deeply literary book… wonderful prose . Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. 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 41 CE. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.A touchstone into one of the most fascinating periods in British and European history that still has resonance today. The road Hadley walks has been largely lost over the many centuries since it was constructed - all that remains is a mere route.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.There is equal pleasure in following him through the countryside in all seasons, sharing his reflections on how echoes of past millennia continue to be part of our present experience. Nowadays a long straight road is considered boring and dangerous to drive along - we prefer curves to keep us awake - but the excitement of realising we are sometimes travelling a road initially constructed 2,000 years ago along our exact path helps connect us to the generations who have undertaken the same route, marching, riding, droving, walking (or driving) for two millennia.