Pallas Poppies
Read this with no previous knowledge about Hadrian, The Wall or Roman Britain. It served it’s purpose and I’ll pick up some more books about the Romans. Or hiking The Wall, that seems like fun as well.
I was a little annoyed at the preface when talking about ramparts and fortifications, “Perhaps the attraction comes from years of television and film: American Indians charging across the plains, whooping and yelling, hurtling towards camera, loosing off arrows at the good guys safe behind the stockade…” Yes in reference to the world of movies where natives are bad and cowboys or whatever good but I hate that, make it stop.
Read this with no previous knowledge about Hadrian, The Wall or Roman Britain. It served it’s purpose and I’ll pick up some more books about the Romans. Or hiking The Wall, that seems like fun as well.
I was a little annoyed at the preface when talking about ramparts and fortifications, “Perhaps the attraction comes from years of television and film: American Indians charging across the plains, whooping and yelling, hurtling towards camera, loosing off arrows at the good guys safe behind the stockade…” Yes in reference to the world of movies where natives are bad and cowboys or whatever good but I hate that, make it stop.