Pompeii

a novel

278 pages

English language

Published May 16, 2003 by Random House.

ISBN:
9780679428893

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When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Water supply -- Fiction
  • Aqueducts -- Fiction
  • Engineers -- Fiction
  • Volcanoes -- Fiction
  • Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Fiction
  • Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Fiction