The Wall: Rome's greatest border
Written by Alistair Moffat
Reported by James Cameron Stewart
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Hadrian's Wall is the largest and one of the most enigmatic historic monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall stretching seventy-three miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least twenty-six miles along the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch cut south of the wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthworks. Built in ten years by more than thirty thousand soldiers and workers at the request of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall was composed of more than twenty-four million stones, which gave it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids combined. At least a million people visit Hadrian's Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat examines who built the wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the indigenous people who lived within it. his powerful shadow. The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the wonders of the ancient world.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alistair Moffat is an award-winning Scottish television writer, historian and program director. His many books include The Highland Clans, To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne and The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads, shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
Educated at the University of Hull and Bristol Old Vic Theater School, James Cameron Stewart is a seasoned actor whose performances include roles in theatre, film and television. His credits include Outlander, Jericho, Flying Blind, Golden Years, Emmerdale, London's Burning, Eastenders, Coronation Street and Holby City.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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French language
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc.
Published on: July 18, 2023
ISBN: 9781666196726
Duration: 12h 31m
Genres: History/Antiquity/Rome, History/Europe/Great Britain/Scotland, History/Military/Antiquity
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