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Pompeii : The Living City by Ray Laurence and Alex Butterworth (2006, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312355858

ISBN-139780312355852

eBay Product ID (ePID)63058775

Product Key Features

Book TitlePompeii : the Living City

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicArchaeology, Ancient / Rome

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorRay Laurence, Alex Butterworth

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight24.7 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-050451

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A compelling and yet highly detailed narrative. I only wish it had been available when I was researching my novel." - bestselling author Robert Harris "An immensely evocative, well-written and powerful portrait of what life was really like in Pompeii." - Tom Holland, author of RUBICON "Brings Pompeii startlingly alive once more" - History Today "a vivid portrait of place and people before the cataclysms of AD 62 and 75" - Church Times "accessible, wide-ranging and evocative and makes surprisingly compelling reading." - Catholic Times "For those looking to be transported back to the living city, it will be hard to resist." - Oxford Times, A compelling and yet highly detailed narrative. I only wish it had been available when I was researching my novel., "A compelling and yet highly detailed narrative. I only wish it had been available when I was researching my novel." - bestselling author Robert Harris "An immensely evocative, well-written and powerful portrait of what life was really like in Pompeii." - Tom Holland, author of RUBICON "Brings Pompeii startlingly alive once more"-History Today "a vivid portrait of place and people before the cataclysms of AD 62 and 75"-Church Times "accessible, wide-ranging and evocative and makes surprisingly compelling reading." - Catholic Times "For those looking to be transported back to the living city, it will be hard to resist." - Oxford Times, "A compelling and yet highly detailed narrative. I only wish it had been available when I was researching my novel." - bestselling author Robert Harris "An immensely evocative, well-written and powerful portrait of what life was really like in Pompeii." - Tom Holland, author of RUBICON "Brings Pompeii startlingly alive once more" - History Today "a vivid portrait of place and people before the cataclysms of AD 62 and 75" -Church Times "accessible, wide-ranging and evocative and makes surprisingly compelling reading." - Catholic Times "For those looking to be transported back to the living city, it will be hard to resist." - Oxford Times

Dewey Decimal937/.7

SynopsisThe 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.

LC Classification NumberDG70.P7B93 2006