The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

Mary Beard

360 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present da...

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challenging 13%
mysterious 13%
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