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=Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius: Non-Fiction Books=

Some of these books are not at the Wake Forest Branch library but you can request to have them sent there. You can learn how to do this on the[| Wake County Public Library website]. I will note these by putting [Request] after their call numbers.



About Geology and Volcanoes
Fortey, Richard. //Earth: An Intimate History//. New York: Knopf, 2004. 551.7 FORTE [Request] This geological history of Earth includes Mt. Vesuvius among the disasters it describes.

Lindop, Laurie. //Probing Volcanoes.// Brookfield, Conn.: Twenty-First Century Books, 2003. J 551.21 LINDOP [Request] This book features a history of volcanism, including a first-person description of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.

About Archaeology
Moloney, Norah. //The Young Oxford Book of Archaeology.// New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. J 930.1 MOLON [Request] This general introduction to archaeology includes some evidence from Pompeii.

About the Roman Empire
Boatwright, Mary T. //The Romans: From Village to Empire.// New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 937 BOA This gives you an overview of Roman history and how Pompeii and the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius fit into the bigger picture.

About Pompeii and Herculaneum
NEW NONFICTION 937 BEARD In this book, Classicist Mary Beard addresses daily life in Pompeii including the ins and outs of the //garum// industry and whether or not Pompeiians ate in rooms other than the //triclinium//.
 * NEW! ** Beard, Mary. //The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found.// Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Butterworth, Alex and Ray Laurence. //Pompeii: The Living City.// New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. 937.725 BEARD This book describes the culture and lives of the citizens of Pompeii, drawing inspiration from archaeological evidence and ancient documents.

Deem, James M. //Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii.// Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. J 937 DEEM [Request] This book explains how the skeletons found at Pompeii provide evidence that tells us what happened there.

Patent, Dorothy Henshaw. //Lost City of Pompeii.// New York: Benchmark Books, 2000. J 937 PATE This book focuses on the way in which the discovery of Pompeii provided new information about the Roman Empire.

Pellegrino, Charles. //Ghosts of Vesuvius.// New York: W. Morrow, 2004. 937 PELLE [Request] This is a scientific examination of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. It uses forensic evidence and new information about volcano physics to connect this ancient disaster with modern events such as the collapse of the World Trade Center.