The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Daisy Dunn

336 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, P...

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