This new edition of the two letters in which Pliny the Younger gives his
eye-witness account of the most fabulous natural disaster ever fabled by
mankind-the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy and the destruction of
"whole communities and cities," including Pompeii features the original
Latin facing an exceptionally faithful translation in contemporary
English and enhanced by superbly evocative and witty drawings of the
events as they are described. The reader of Vesuvius will come away from
these pages with a lively sense of what really happened in those
harrowing days and hours during the eruption of the famous volcano. The
book includes an introduction and endnotes by the translator.