Pompeii: The Living City
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Dewey Decimal Number: 937.7
EAN: 9780312355852
ISBN: 0312355858
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 03, 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: October 03, 2006
Sales Rank: 279292
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Butterworth and Laurence marshall cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present a richly textured portrait of a society not altogether unlike ours, composed of individuals ordinary and extraordinary who pursued commerce, politics, family and pleasure in the shadow of a killer volcano. Deeply resonant in a world still at the mercy of natural disaster, Pompeii recreates life as experienced in the city, and those frantic, awful hours in AD 79 that wiped the bustling city from the face of the earth.
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- brilliant!No time to write much - twin 19 month-old boys will do that.
I've been to pompeii a number of ... Read More
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- I loved this history.These two authors, Mr. Butterworth and Dr. Laurence, have brought a great human story to life. Offering ... Read More
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- Learning from the ruinsThis book takes a very close look at the buried city of Pompeii, and the type of living that went on in it ... Read More
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- Delving into the life and death of an ancient cityMention Pompeii, we tend to think of the ruins of a Roman city, and the eerie plaster casts that were made ... Read More
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- The last decades of Pompeii - a lively accountThis book brings Pompeii alive in way that I've only seen before in well made TV documentaries. The authors ... Read More
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