This book is a photographic record of a series of journeys made along five ofhe ancient Roman roads of Italy - the Via Appia, which extended from Rome tohe great port of Brindisi, thus linking the city with the Orient; Via Cassiao Siena; Via Flaminia to Bologna; Via Aurelia to San Remo; Via Aemelia fromarma to Rimini (where it joined the Via Flaminia). These routes offer aatural framework to a record of the varied regions of Italy and how theyave evolved over two thousand years - and an insight into the fusion of oldnd new that gives Italy its distinctive character. The journeys are rich invocative contrasts, with the most modern expressions of twenty-first-centuryife played out against ancient backdrops. John Heseltine's romantic blacknd white photographs will appeal to all lovers of Italy.