This book is a photographic record of a series of journeys made by contemporary photographer John Heseltine along five of the ancient Roman roads of Italy: the Via Appia, which extended from Rome to the great port of Brindisi, thus linking the city with Asia; Via Cassia to Siena; Via Flaminia to Bologna; Via Aurelia to San Remo; and Via Aemelia from Parma to Rimini, where it joined the Via Flaminia. These ancient routes offer a useful framework to examine the varied regions of Italy and the ways they have evolved over two thousand years.

Heseltine's romantic black-and-white photographs are rich in evocative contrasts, with the most modern expressions of twenty-first-century life played out against ancient backdrops. Roads to Rome will appeal to all who have been charmed by this unique fusion of the old and the new, which gives Italy its distinctive character.

John Heseltine is an internationally known photographer whose work appears in many travel and food publications, including Italy magazine and the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness travel guides. Colin Ford is retired as director of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, England. He is the coauthor of Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs.

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Price: $55.00