The Eagle of the Ninth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: March 9, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780192750457
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.