Hadrian's Wall

by Adrian Goldsworthy

Book Overview

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541644425
• ISBN13: 9781541644427
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"