The North Road, Rob Cowen

The North Road, Rob CowenNew Hardback At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400 mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years. In this genre defying and profoundly personal book, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end on a journey through history, place, people and time. Weaving his own histories and memories with the

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