Name: Vesuvius (Wonders of the World) (en Inglés)
Price: 118.64 PEN
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Author: Darley, Gillian
ISBN: 9780674503779

portada Vesuvius (Wonders of the World) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Gillian Darley

Editorial

Harvard University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

17.8 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780674503779

Categorías

Italia
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Historia de europa
Vulcanología y sismología

Vesuvius (Wonders of the World) (en Inglés)

Gillian Darley (Autor) · Harvard University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Vesuvius (Wonders of the World) (en Inglés)"

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.