Pompeii
Subtitle: a novel
By: Robert Harris.
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Pbks.; Random House Trade Pbks
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780812974614
Subjects: Water-supply -- Fiction.; Aqueducts -- Fiction.; Engineers -- Fiction.; Volcanoes -- Fiction.; Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Fiction.; Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.