New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. First American Edition [stated] Presumed first printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 7.875 inches by 10.75 inches. 152 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Index. DJ is price clipped and has some damp-staining, wear and soiling. Written for the traveler, the author describes the archaeological remains of the Romans in the various regions of England and depicts the way of life of the Romans in England. This was produced in association with the English Tourist Board. John Frederick Burke (8 March 1922 – 20 September 2011) was an English writer of novels and short stories. He served in the Royal Air Force, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and the Royal Marines during the war. After working for the publishers Museum Press and the Books for Pleasure Group, he was a Public Relations and Publications Executive for Shell and Story Editor for Twentieth Century-Fox before becoming a full-time writer in 1966. For more than thirty years Burke novelized a large number of stage plays, film and TV scripts, notably John Osborne's The Entertainer and Look Back in Anger, The Angry Silence, Flame in the Streets, The Lion of Sparta, The Boys, The System, A Hard Day's Night, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, That Magnificent Air Race, The Hammer Horror Omnibus (1966/7; two volumes), Till Death Us Do Part, Privilege, Smashing Time, Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Moon Zero Two, Luke's Kingdom, and King and Castle. He also wrote under the pen names J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, and Joanna Jones. More