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

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He explains how roads initially built by the Romans for military and strategic purposes became economic highways for spreading trade, especially in pottery, and ideas. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. His pieces have appeared in The Independent , The Guardian , The Times , London Review of Books , Esquire and his local parish magazine, among many other publications. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is no dry and prosaic history, but a work of imagination and a deeply literary book… wonderful prose .

And good for him and anyone who genuinely enjoys 275 pages of a bloke slipping into verse and panegyric over the remains of a road! Weaving in culture and local history, plus countryside insights, this is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read. Then I realised that the last time I thought much about the subject was when I was at school in the 70s and my brother and I used to play with 1/72nd scale 'Romans and Britons'.Hadley's writing moves seemingly randomly from descriptions of hedgerows, to parish history and into archaeological analysis and then back again. I admit that my pitch barely sounds any better but, well, I'm glad Hadley made it, his agent touted it and William Collins accepted it. We all think we know about Roman roads because they are straight, but this book shows there is far more to them than that. Hadley leads us on a hunt to discover, in Hilaire Belloc's phrase, 'all that has arisen along the way'.

Loving The Road , [it’s] about a Roman road but also a rumination on the past and our relationship with it. 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.Temporary campaign roads followed, rolling out west towards Rochester and the first major battle at the Medway. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Then I became overwhelmed with the micro detail of the local landscape and although many of stories and folklore Hadley draws in are compelling, as a reader I ran out of steam! Much like a road itself - there are some interesting bits and then there are some bits where you’re just chugging along and the scenery is pretty pleasant but it’s scrolling past as you go on your way.

I read through the references, I've bought more books on the subject and I went back and forth between the book and Google Earth at several points. 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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Hadley takes us down a different way, looking through a gentler window on that road's long lost days. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. As the Britons fell back to the Thames, the road pursued them to the river’s edge, carrying troops, supplies and military despatches.

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