
- 278 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The author and classics scholar shares "
a delightful, deeply informed recounting of her journeys across Britain in search of its ancient Roman past" (
Kirkus, starred review).
What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell.
Under Another Sky invites readers to see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Kent and Essex
- Chapter Two: Norfolk
- Chapter Three: London
- Chapter Four: Silchester
- Chapter Five: Wales and the West
- Chapter Six: Bath
- Chapter Seven: Hadrian’s Wall
- Chapter Eight: Scotland
- Chapter Nine: York
- Chapter Ten: Cumbria and the Lakes
- Chapter Eleven: The Cotswolds and the South-West
- Chapter Twelve: Norfolk, again, and Sussex
- Notes
- Places to Visit
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author