Book description
'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRY
'Brilliant' TOM HOLLAND
A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Buried City as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The story of Pompeii by the director of the site. I picked up the book as research for my own book Echoes of Ash: The story of Herculaneum which is out next year. It reconstructs the eruption that destroyed the city and gives a sense of the people who lived there.
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