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Stretching from the Solway Firth to the estuary of the River Tyne, Hadrian's Wall runs for 74 miles through some of the most scenic landscape in Britain. It disregards hills and valleys, at times choosing what seems to be the most difficult route. It is a spectacular monument to the ambition and skill of the Romans, who built the wall almost two thousand years ago to mark and protect the northernmost boundary of their Empire. Ed Geldard's beautifully illustrated account describes Hadrian the man and the construction of the wall, and takes the reader on a tour of the wall from east to west, concluding with an examination of the soldiers' way of life. AUTHOR: Ed Geldard is a professional landscape photographer who, after a short spell in the Lake District, returned to his native northeast. A former freelance of the Northern Echo group, he is a keen walker and contributes to many countryside publications. In 1991 he teamed up with the legendary Alfred Wainwright, who said 'so good is his work that I have been well content to let my narrative play second fiddle to his excellent photographs'. The Sunday Times labels Ed's photographs as 'stunningly magnificent'. Together Ed and Alfred Wainwright produced Wainwright in the Limestone Dales, which became an overnight bestseller. SELLING POINTS: Hadrian's Wall is the most complex and best preserved frontiers of the Roman Empire, taking six years to build and maintained by the Romans fro almost three hundred years What remains of the wall today is a reminder of the limits of an Empire that had taken the Romans 1200 years to build This highly illustrative account describes Hadrian the man, covers the construction of the wall and then takes the reader on a tour of the wall from east to west and concludes with an examination of the soldiers' way of life ILLUSTRATIONS: 130 colour photographs *

About the Author :
Ed Geldard is a professional landscape photographer who, after a short spell in the Lake District, returned to his native northeast. A former freelance of the Northern Echo group, he is a keen walker and contributes to many countryside publications. In 1991 he teamed up with the legendary Alfred Wainwright, who said 'so good is his work that I have been well content to let my narrative play second fiddle to his excellent photographs'. The Sunday Times labelled Ed's photographs as 'stunningly magnificent'. Together Ed and Alfred Wainwright produced Wainwright in the Limestone Dales, which became an overnight bestseller.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781847972736
  • Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: The Crowood Press Ltd
  • Height: 270 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 896 gr
  • ISBN-10: 184797273X
  • Publisher Date: 22 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Edge of an Empire
  • Width: 280 mm


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