From Rome to the Edges of the World

Guided by Esch on the basis of historical, partly newly developed source documents, the reader follows a Roman inscription carver on the road from Augsburg to Salzburg or accompanies Roman soldiers along the imperial border on plains and desert. In 1470 we accompany an indulgence collector on his difficult journey through Germany and the Netherlands, we also listen to the complaints of exiles on distant, recently discovered Atlantic islands and we see Italy from below with job seekers and vagabonds around 1900, and finally, in 1992, with the disturbed reactions of Siberian newspapers to the end of the Soviet Union in mind, we travel from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Thus this knowledgeably and entertainingly written book gathers a wide range of historical information from reports, letters, customs registers, which invite us to make our own explorations.