Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Pompeii -- Herculaneum: Past and Present

Author: A de Franciscis
Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar

A pleasant surprise in a tiny package. Basically the left hand page is text about a particular structure up to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, and when that finishes the nearest right hand page is first a clear plastic layover illustrating the building as it looked immediately prior. But flip the sheet over and you see how the building looks like today - so it is a very sobering examination of the devastation.
 

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