![]() Remembering our history, however, is not an innocent act. But the narrative (unlike the camper van) is prone to sudden shifts sideways, into historical reportage, analogy, anecdote. The thread running throughout is the story of Higgins's determined pursuit of architecture and artefacts throughout the mainland – sometimes on foot across fields, council estates and garden centres, but more often in a pleasingly wilful blue camper van. ![]() Like all quests after traces of the past, it is also an allegory, speaking of the modern world too: how the past has been remembered (and forgotten) by generations of antiquarians, poets, painters, archaeologists and their families and lovers. ![]() T his mesmerising book records the author's travels in search of the elusive remains that dot what was once ancient Rome's northernmost territory. ![]()
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