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Vesuvius (Paperback)
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Vesuvius (Paperback)
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Volcanoes around the world have their own legends, and many have
wrought terrible devastation, but none has caught the imagination
like Vesuvius. We now know that immense eruptions destroyed Bronze
Age settlements around Vesuvius, but the Romans knew nothing of
those disasters and were lulled into complacency-much as we are
today-by its long period of inactivity. None of the nearly thirty
eruptions since AD 79 has matched the infamous cataclysm that
destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum within hours. Nearly two thousand
years later, the allure of the volcano remains-as evidenced by its
popularity as a tourist attraction, from Shelley and the Romantics
to modern-day visitors. Vesuvius has loomed large throughout
history, both feared and celebrated. Gillian Darley unveils the
human responses to Vesuvius from a cast of characters as far-flung
as Pliny the Younger and Andy Warhol, revealing shifts over time.
This cultural and scientific meditation on a powerful natural
wonder touches on pagan religious beliefs, vulcanology, and travel
writing. Sifting through the ashes of Vesuvius, Darley exposes how
changes in our relationship to the volcano mirror changes in our
understanding of our cultural and natural environments.
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