Download or read book Sketches of Vesuvius written by John Auldjo and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketches of Vesuvius with Short Accounts of Its Principal Eruptions from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time written by John Auldjo and published by Naples : G. Glass. This book was released on 1832 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketches Of Vesuvius written by John Auldjo and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few natural wonders can match the awe-inspiring spectacle of an erupting volcano. In this classic work, John Auldjo takes readers on a journey to one of the most famous volcanoes of all: Mount Vesuvius. Through vivid descriptions and stunning illustrations, Auldjo paints a picture of the volcano's history, geology, and cultural importance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Pompeii written by Fergus Mason and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompeii was one of most advanced cities of its time; it had a complex water system, gymnasium, and an amphitheater. Despite it's advancements, there was one thing it wasn't ready for: Mount Vesuvius—the volcano that led to its ultimate doom. The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of the worst disasters in all of European history. In a near instant, over 15,000 people were dead and a city was completely destroyed. This book looks at the rise, fall, and rediscovery of the great city of Pompeii.

Download or read book Visions of Vesuvius written by Alexandra R. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Observations On Mount Vesuvius Mount Etna and Other Volcanos written by W. Hamilton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Observations On Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by W. Hamilton

Download or read book The Vesuvius Club written by Mark Gatiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent. Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.

Download or read book The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 written by Luigi Palmieri and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of Pompeii written by Antonella Magagnini and published by White Star Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amagnificent collection of stylised reproductions of Pompeii's pictorial treasures by a leading antiquities photographer. The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 - freeze-framing a ripe moment in time - bestowed upon posterity an incalculable heritage of art and knowledge in the miraculously well-preserved remains of the city of Pompeii. This volume of lush colour images taken by renowned photographer Araldo De Luca, takes readers inside the houses and into the secrets of one of the most charming sites of classical antiquity. Accompanying the photos, which are presented in a distinguished stylized format, are accessible texts that elucidate the daily life, the mythic and heroic imagination, and the religious customs and beliefs of the ancient Romans. AUTHORS: Antonella Magagnini, curator in Rome's Capitoline Museums, is a former professor at the University of Rome. Araldo De Luca is an eminent photographer with an archive of 60,000 images considered among the most highly prized in the world. His work has appeared in White Star's Egyptian Treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and other books. ILLUSTRATIONS: 95 colour photographs

Download or read book Bibliography of the Geology and Eruptive Phenomena of the More Important Volcanoes of Southern Italy written by Henry James Johnston-Lavis and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book All Over the Map written by Betsy Mason and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2018 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps. This diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does, whether you know it or not--this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.

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Download or read book The Fires of Vesuvius written by Mary Beard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 day. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was—more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?—and what it can tell us about “ordinary” life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd’s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi’s elegy on the victims. But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. This book shows us how much more and less there is to Pompeii than a city frozen in time as it went about its business on 24 August 79.

Download or read book Vesuvius Classic Reprint written by John Phillips and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Vesuvius My purpose has been first to collect an authentic history of the mountain called Vesuvius, and of its successive eruptions; next, to arrange the main facts and phaenomena which have been observed in and around Vesuvius, in a settled order; and finally, to present such thoughts and interpretations as appear to me justly founded on these observations, and in harmony with the working laws of nature. Of many sketches rapidly made on the spot by my companion and myself, a few have been translated into engravings and lithographs, but the greater num ber sketched in outline on wood by myself, along with other diagrams which seemed useful for reference. I am indebted to my friend Mr. Lowry, for directing the engraving; Messrs. Newbald and Stead, of York, have executed the colour-printing and lithographs; and Mr. De Wilde has patiently fixed my ideas on wood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Pompeii written by Marisa Ranieri Panetta and published by White Star. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history and art of Pompeii through the analysis of artifacts and ruins that give clues into the public, religious, commercial, and private lives of its inhabitants; and provides an overview of the excavation of the land and eruption of Mount Vesuvius.