By AD 130, Rome's remote province of Britannia was at last taking shape. Everywhere old wooden forts, temples and houses were being replaced by monumental stone edifices; London was recovering from a serious fire; and tourists were flocking to the thermal waters at Bath. Hadrian's Wall, commissioned by the emperor himself on a visit to Britain in AD 122, was almost complete.
Bronwen Riley devotes a chapter to each stage of an epic journey, vividly describing the places, people, sights and sounds that might be encountered along the way. A JOURNEY TO ROMAN BRITAIN recreates in fascinating detail how this remote corner of the Empire might have looked, smelled and tasted to a Roman visitor in the early second century.
