Pompeii : the day a city was buried
(1998)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/937.7/RICE,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : DK Pub., 1998
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0789434199, 9780789434197, 0789434199
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Includes index
Pompeii: a window on the past -- The Roman empire -- A Mediterranean town -- The people of Pompeii -- Growing up in Pompeii -- Eruption! -- Ignoring the signs -- The mountain explodes -- The final hours -- the lost city -- The discovery -- Revisiting the past -- Pompeii revealed -- Everyday life in Pompeii -- A Roman town house -- The public baths -- At the theater -- The amphitheater -- Vesuvius AD 79 -- What is a volcano?
Describes the life and people of Pompeii, a city in southern Italy destroyed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79
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