Ghosts of Vesuvius: a new look at the last days of Pompeii, how towers fall, and other strange connections
Science and technology, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Weaving together accounts of ancient authorities with research by forensic archaeologists, Pellegrino captures the final hours of Pompeii and Herculaneum. In the flash-fossilized remains of victims, he sees reminders of the abiding human hope to understand a brutal universe. Those… hopes live both in the science Pellegrino uses to interpret historic volcanic explosions as the distant consequence of the Big Bang, and in the startling connections he makes between the two cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE and the Twin Towers destroyed by terrorists in 2001. 2004.
Title Details
ISBN
9780380973101
Publisher
Harpercollins Canada, 2004.
Copyright Date
2004
Book number
2389352
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Andrew Campbell
Duration
18 hours 57 minutes 31 seconds
Audio producer
CNIB, 2008.