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| Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2005-08-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0060751002 |
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A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns – and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath. The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'.
| Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
| ISBN | : |
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An examination of the disasters at Pompeii and Herculaneum discusses what forensic archaeology and new findings in volcano physics reveal about modern events, including the "collapse column" at the World Trade Center.
| Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2001-07-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0380810441 |
Download Unearthing Atlantis: Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Illustrated history of Thera Islands of Greece, the Minoan civilization and the fabled land of Atlantis.
| Author | : Daisy Dunn |
| Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2019-12-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1631496409 |
Download The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.
| Author | : Kate Quinn |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2023-08-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0063310570 |
Download A Day of Fire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii’s flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other’s paths during Pompeii’s fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity?
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780892369003 |
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Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of art that illustrate various descriptions in the letters. The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.
| Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 1999-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780380787425 |
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When a gigantic ecological eruption causes dust mites to rapidly reproduce and become flesh-eating insects, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair and a group of survivors must try to stop this deadly phenomenon before the entire world is destroyed. Reprint.
| Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
| Publisher | : Avon Books |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Dictators |
| ISBN | : 9780380972203 |
Download Flying to Valhalla Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A brilliant hard-tech debut novel by the well-known author of Her Name, Titanic and Unearthing Atlantis. On Earth, the designers of an advanced space mission fear they've put awesome power in the hands of a maniac, and in the depths of space, a hostile species awakens to the discovery of a new enemy--Earthlings. Illustrated.
| Author | : Charles R. Pellegrino |
| Publisher | : Avon |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780380724727 |
Download Ghosts of the Titanic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A member of the team that discovered the Titanic on the ocean floor recreates the final day of the ship in detail, using new technology to peer deeper into the ship than anyone has ever looked.
| Author | : Mark Gatiss |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2005-10-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0743291190 |
Download Vesuvius Club Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Meet Lucifer Box: Equal parts James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, with a twist of Monty Python and a dash of Austin Powers, Lucifer has a charming countenance and rapier wit that make him the guest all hostesses must have. And most do. But few of his conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and in its underworld of despicable vice. So when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to for help. Following a dinnertime assassination, Lucifer is dispatched to uncover the whereabouts of missing agent Jocelyn Poop. Along the way he will give art lessons, be attacked by a poisonous centipede, bed a few choice specimens, and travel to Italy on business and pleasure. Aided by his henchwoman Delilah; the beautiful, mysterious, and Dutch Miss Bella Pok; his boss, a dwarf who takes meetings in a lavatory; grizzled vulcanologist Emmanuel Quibble; and the impertinent, delicious, right-hand-boy Charlie Jackpot, Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there) to the ruined city of Pompeii, to infiltrate a highly dangerous secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its clawlike grip--the Vesuvius Club.
