Part history book, part guide book, Philip Parker’s The Empire Stops Here reveals the full extent of the Roman Empire and its legacy.
In order to produce this book, Parker traced the length of what the Romans termed the "limes", the frontier zone of their empire. The result was an epic journey that he described to The Guardian as "I have encountered more than five centuries of Roman history, in some 21 modern countries, covering a range of climactic variations from a snowstorm in Switzerland to a sandstorm at 45 Centigrade in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis, and have covered more than 20,000 kilometres".
A Reader’s Digest reviewer called The Empire Stops Here “one of the liveliest works of ancient history I’ve ever read”.