The Eagle of the Ninth
Publisher: Henry Z Walck
Published: June 1954
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9789998889507
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.