Description: Further DetailsTitle: Natural HistoryCondition: NewEAN: 9780140444131ISBN: 9780140444131Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/29/1991Language: EnglishItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 326gTranslator: John HealeyContributor: John Healey (Introduction by), John Healey (Notes by), John Healey (Translated by)ISBN-10: 0140444130Description: Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died while investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the natural curiosity that brought about his death is also very much evident in the Natural History - a book that proved highly influential right up until the Renaissance and that his nephew, Pliny the younger, described 'as full of variety as nature itself'.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismAuthor: Pliny the ElderRelease Year: 1991 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Natural History
Title: Natural History
EAN: 9780140444131
ISBN: 9780140444131
Release Date: 08/29/1991
Release Year: 1991
Translator: John Healey
Contributor: John Healey (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0140444130
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Natural History : a Selection
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Natural History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 1991
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Social Science, Science, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Pliny the Pliny the Elder
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
