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The Spirit of Hadrian's Wall Mark Richards

The Spirit of Hadrian's Wall By Mark Richards

The Spirit of Hadrian's Wall by Mark Richards


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Summary

In this collection of photographs of Hadrian's Wall, Roger Clegg has captured contrasting moods and landscapes - blazing skies at dawn and dusk, mist lifting from the crags and new-fallen snow banked against the familiar stonework. As the images progress along the Wall, Mark Richards sketches its context from the Roman era to the modern age.

The Spirit of Hadrian's Wall Summary

The Spirit of Hadrian's Wall by Mark Richards

In this coffee table book of photographs of Hadrian's Wall, Roger Clegg and Mark Richards use this iconic Roman frontier land to evoke times past, from the Romans through the industrial age to the 20th century. In this first collection of his iconic and breathtaking images, Roger has captured myriad contrasting moods and landscapes, often at times of day and seasons of the year that few visitors ever see - blazing skies at dawn and dusk, veils of mist lifting from the crags or new-fallen snow banked against the familiar stonework. As the sequence of images moves from east to west, in the steps of the Roman wall-builders, author Mark Richards sketches the historical and social context. The Roman footprint is naturally writ large but there are also stories to be told from the age of Arthur, the early Christian missionaries and the Reiver years and of great industrial milestones closer to the modern age.

About Mark Richards

A professional photographer living in Hexham,Northumberland, Roger Clegg has devoted much of the last six years to photographing Hadrian's Wall and the surrounding countryside. Mark Richards has a particular appreciation of English frontiers. Guides to Offa's Dyke, the Anglo-Welsh border, lead naturally to Hadrian's Wall. In 1993 he pioneered a coast to coast route The Wall Walk published by Cicerone, is fore-runner to Hadrian's wall Path.

Table of Contents

A NOTE ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION: THE ROMAN FOOTPRINT 1 WITH THE TIDAL TYNE South Shields to Heddon-on-the-Wall 2 ALONG THE BROAD WALL Heddon-on-the-Wall to Heavenfield 3 ENTERING CLAYTON COUNTRY Heavenfield to Sewingshields 4 A GOOD KNIGHT'S REST Sewingshields to Housesteads 5 ON THE CREST OF A WAVE Housesteads to Cawfields 6 THE NINE NICKS OF THIRLWALL Cawfields to Gilsland 7 STRATH CUMBRIA Gilsland to Carlisle 8 EDEN TIDE ADVANCES Carlisle to Bowness-on-Solway EPILOGUE EXPLORING FURTHER

Additional information

GOR003943720
9781852845582
1852845589
The Spirit of Hadrian's Wall by Mark Richards
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cicerone Press
20080918
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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