Pompeii

Name: Pompeii
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ISBN: 9780753460443

ISBN-10: 0753460440

ISBN-13: 9780753460443

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Platt, Manuela Cappon

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Description:

This sumptuous, innovative recreation of Roman life traces the rise and fall of a great empire. Superb illustrations retell the lost story of Pompeii-the life of its people, its conflicts and disasters, and the changing fortunes of a house at the center of it all. Beginning in the sixth century bce, a simple hut becomes a farmhouse, and gradually the farmhouse is swallowed up by the expanding new city of Pompeii. The house grows as the city and its inhabitants prosper. But finally it also suffers the devastating effects of the natural disaster that swallowed up the city-the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. This is the story of the growth and destruction of a house, a city, and an empire.…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Publication date: 9/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English