The Eagle of the Ninth
Contributors: C. Walter Hodges (Illustrator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 18, 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780192710376
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.