The Eagle of the Ninth (Oxford Children's Modern Classics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: January 1998
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780192717658
First sentence: From the Fosseway westward to Isca Dumnoniorum the road was simply a British trackway, broadened and roughly metalled, strengthened by corduroys of logs in the softest places, but otherwise unchanged from its old estate, as it wound among the hills, thrusting farther and farther into the wilderness.