The Devil to Pay (2014)
“He had no surety that his enemies had given up on their pursuit, which would mean them heading for Sapri, where they thought he would go next, it being the nearest point of habitation. If that was to be avoided then so was any notion of progressing inland to seek out a road to the north for the fishing port was on the way, which had him inclining to the idea of making their way north by sticking to the coast.There would be a coastal path, in his experience of traversing his homeland there alway...s was and he had no reason to doubt that matters were the same here in Italy. They were the routes of trade and travel that went back to time immemorial: on many occasions he and his father had used such paths to make their way from one coastal town to another and if they were not roads they were usually better than the muddy, rutted so called highways that were as likely to be home to thievery as any other hazard.
His thinking was also affected by what he had read, from the annals of empire that began with Rome and extended to the writings of those who had undertaken the Grand Tour, not all of them rich and idle youth.MoreLess
His thinking was also affected by what he had read, from the annals of empire that began with Rome and extended to the writings of those who had undertaken the Grand Tour, not all of them rich and idle youth.MoreLess
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