The buried city of Pompeii
Subtitle: what it was like when Vesuvius exploded
By: by Shelley Tanaka ; illustrations by Greg Ruhl ; diagrams and maps by Jack McMaster ; historical consultation by Elizabeth Lyding Will ; photographs by Peter Christopher
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780439236522
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Eruption, 79; Excavations (Archaeology); Juvenile literature; Antiquities
Description: Uses a fictionalized account of the life of the steward of an important estate to describe the ancient Italian city of Pompeii and what happened to it during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Notes: "A Scholastic/Madison Press book."

"An I was there book"--Cover.