books.google.co.nz - Following the prototype established by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, Jashemski and the volume's contributors reconstruct the environment of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the surrounding Campanian countryside, based on the evidence preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The volume brings...http://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_Natural_History_of_Pompeii.html?id=3xfjyTqqR7IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Natural History of Pompeii