Vesuvius / / Gillian Darley.
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 c...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Wonders of the world : 20
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 34 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Introduction
- 1. Early days
- 2. Miracle or science?
- 3. William Hamilton – made by Vesuvius
- 4. Romantics
- 5. Making Vesuvius
- 6. Real Geology, New Focus
- 7. Vesuvius and the Wider World
- Visiting Vesuvius at home and abroad
- Further Reading
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Backmatter