Vesuvius

Informationen zum Autor Gillian Darley is a writer, broadcaster, and architectural journalist. Klappentext The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley¿s meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments. Zusammenfassung The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley's meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Darley, Darley Gillian
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780674503779
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50377-9
• Series: Wonders of the World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism, Italy, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Volcanology & seismology, Volcanology and seismology