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Pompeii: The Day a City Died Paperback – March 30, 1992

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In an illustrated survey of one of the most fascinating archeological discoveries in history, an expert on Pompeii uses photographs, maps, reconstructed city plans, mosaics, and drawings to provide a vivid portrait of life in this Roman city.

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Harry N. Abrams
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March 30, 1992
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5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
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0810928558
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams; First Edition (March 30, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 215 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810928558
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810928558
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches

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Walk talk eat

My favorite Pompeii read.

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2015

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I was delighted with the illustrations! Not only that - each illustration is generously described - plus, the history is presented in an interesting, very readable manner. I keep wondering - how did this author and publisher manage such a fine publication. Looking for one book on Pompeii? I'd recommend this one.

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Giovanni Deamici

this (or something similar) should be in your pack when you visit the ruins

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017

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the best part of this book (IMHO) is the fold-out pages, showing the way the forum and the theater (et al.) look like now, and the way it might have looked when they were new. subject to interpretation, of course, especially the color palette. the discussion of the frescoes in the Villa dei Misteri is great. The main drawback (small one) is the organization of the material: it is more suitable as a background reading BEFORE you head out to the ruins than as a on-the-spot guide. It is pocket-sized, so you can take it with you while you walk around and refresh your memory as to what is that you are seeing.

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Carol D.

Detailed information and illustrations

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020

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Well written with beautiful and detailed illustrations.

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2022

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This book is like a DK guidebook for Pompeii.

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2015

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Well written. A student of Latin should not be without this in their library.

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Dora

Scrapbook about Pompeii

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2001

This is the first book I read on Pompeii, and therefore my only source of knowledge about what happened there. The book was very easy to read, with almost no jargon or unnecessary details. On the negative side, the book does not follow a meaningful structure, and is almost like a scrapbook on Pompeii. There are plenty of colorful pictures, which have no mention in the text. So first you need to read the book, and then go through the pictures and read the notes on them.
The book starts out describing the history of excavations in Pompeii. Then, we have chapters on the daily life in Pompeii, how they earned a living, the role of women in society, leisure in Pompeii, their relationship with Gods and their views on love and death. At the end there is a section called documents, which includes writings of various writers on Pompeii, including Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Stendhal.
I don't feel like I learned everything there is to know about Pompeii. For example, I am not clear on whether escape was at all possible, or whether anyone survived. The information presented was interesting, but I feel there were gaps in the way it was presented. This is probably a good thing, because it stimulates one for further reading.

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Donna Di Giacomo

Great starter for Pompeii enthusiasts

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2005

After watching the Learning Channel's documentary, "Pompeii: The Last Day," I was pushed to know more about this beautiful city that suffered such a terrible death and that was way ahead of its time.

My curiosity was satisfied, and then some, with this enlightening and informative book.

I enjoyed the paintings of the scenes of what happened to people on that fateful day of 24th August 79 C.E., how the ash had frozen them in time and the next of how they were discovered in those same positions when they were undug nearly two thousand years later in 1961 (to give one example).

For me, the best part was reading Pliny the Younger's letter to his friend Tacitus, written in 104 C. E., about the destruction Mount Vesuvius wrecked upon everyone that surrounded her and about how his uncle, Pliny the Elder, had died in Stabiae because of the noxious fumes that suffocated the air. You're not getting a better first-hand account than that!

The intended audience for this book is not a scholarly one, so that would explain why it's not loaded with Latin and Greek words and/or phrases. But if the text contained such words, that's why Latin and Greek dictionaries are around - to look up those words.

You'll need to look at this book a few times: One to read the text and another to just look at the pictures and read the equally informative captions. You'll learn alot.

But no matter how much I've read and watched about the city over the years, I still can't grasp why Pompeii had to suffer so much. They were way ahead of time with the everyday instruments they used (a printing press, a duplicate of which would not be made until over a thousand years later), bathing to keep diseases at bay (something that Nostradamus would rediscover fifteen hundred years later during the Black Plague). As the author points out, Pompeii had a standard of living that would not be achieved again until the 1950's. (So much for progress!)

A fantastic read.

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MCS

BOOORING...

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016

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This book was a huge disappointment and not at all what I was expecting. I read it in preparation of a trip to the site. I was hoping it would give a little background of what archaeologists thought life was like based on what had been excavated. I also thought it would give me some idea of what not to miss. Instead it is a very boring chronology of who excavated what and when. WHO CARES ???

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