Gillian Darley
1) Vesuvius
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Volcanoes around the world have their own legends, and many have wrought terrible devastation, but none has caught the imagination like Vesuvius. We now know that immense eruptions destroyed Bronze Age settlements around Vesuvius, but the Romans knew nothing of those disasters and were lulled into complacency, much as we are today, by its long period of inactivity.
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