Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0028MBKSY
Publish date: May 4th 2009
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
This is a rollicking, funny read, about tourists on the road in the Roman Empire. And if you think travel delays, gouging innkeepers, bad food, bad service and the like are a new phenomena, nope, it seems that travel was just as wretched then as it can be now. You'll recognize many of the attitudes ...