As the title suggests, about the destruction of Pompeii. More importantly, about the lives and culture of the people living in the doomed city and the events leading up to the eruption. Very professionally written and engaging. Authors like this one bring history to life.
bookshelves: ancient-history, published-2003, spring-2010, italy, roman-civilisation, historical-fiction, conflagration Read from April 26 to 29, 2010 Description: Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and ...
Pompeii – mein erster Gedanke beim Lesen des Buchtitels war dieser hier: Ah, ein Buch über den Vulkanausbruchs des Vesuv und die Zerstörung der ganzen Stadt. Keine Angst, dass kommt auch in diesem Buch vor, jedoch erst ab Seite 300 (wobei das Buch nur 400 Seiten hat). Auf den ersten 300 Seiten folge...
It's obvious to me that Harris did his homework--even before I got to a list of his sources in his Acknowledgments at the end of the novel. He picked an interesting character to carry most of the story, or at least someone in an interesting position to see the signs of impending doom. Marcus Attil...
Just days before the eruption of Vesuvius, the engineer Attilius arrives in Pompeii to take charge of the aqueduct that provides water for all the communities dotted around the Bay of Naples. Pompeii is a bustling town whose inhabitants are busy making money and enjoying themselves. They have no ide...
book-off used bookstore special, $2!Robert Harris, who wrote the 1992 Nazis-won-the-war alternate history/detective novel [b:Fatherland|56842|Fatherland|Robert Harris|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1261912137s/56842.jpg|405136] seems to have a special talent in characterizing completely ...
Pompeii: A Novel - Robert Harris It seems I have a knack for picking duds lately, but I stuck it out with this one because it's fairly short, volcanic eruptions are fascinating, and I am stubborn. This book goes a little something like this: blah, blah, blah, aqueducts...yada, yada, yada, more aq...
I listened to this audiobook to give me some background about Pompeii since we are visiting in a few weeks. Good story and excellent background description of the life in Pompeii and all the events leading up to its destruction by Mt. Vesuvius.
This is the story of a latter day Super Mario, an Italian plumber who overcomes very difficult challenges to fix the water supply to Napoli and surrounding areas before the local volcano erupts to ruin everything for everybody. OK, I admit that I am grossly trivialising a tremendous story, which is...
I’ve always been fascinated by Pompeii. This town forever immortalized by volcanic ash. I’ve seen a few documentaries and read a few articles, but they never really humanized the event. I was always curious to the life before it all turned to ash. Last year when I went to the Pompeii exhibit at the ...
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