Author : Caryn Jenner
Publisher : DK Children
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465419798
Sections of Information on volcanoes are interspersed throughout this science fiction adventure. Discovering that a reawakened Mount Vesuvius is about to erupt, a modern volcanologist and her son warn a reluctant mayor to cancel a festival and evacuate villagers in time, in a story complemented by diary entries, recipes, and poems.
Author : Caryn Jenner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1465434550
In a modern-day adventure of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a volcanologist and her son are caught up in the drama as the volcano re-awakens. The mayor is reluctant to cancel the village festival despite her warnings of an imminent eruption. Will he and the other villagers escape in time, before the explosive volcano wreaks havoc? Find out in DK Adventures: In the Shadow of the Volcano. DK Adventures are an innovative mix of narrative and nonfiction for kids ages 8-11 featuring engaging, action-packed stories that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. With diaries, recipes, poetry, instructions, graphics, or songs, the genre spreads in each DK Adventures title enhance the story and reinforce curriculum learning, while the expansive range of entertaining nonfiction subjects will appeal to boys and girls everywhere. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2014
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ISBN : 9781480657274
Author : Wendy Leighton-Porter
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2019-01-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781912513048
Fifth book in the time-travel adventure series, Shadows from the Past, for Middle Grade readers
Author : John Grattan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1315425165
Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and adaptive from the impacts of volcanic eruptions over human history and prehistory.
Author : Catherine L. Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780888545091
Issued also in French under title: Pompâei.
Author : Enrique R. Lamadrid
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631496409
“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.
Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451132130
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
Author : Deirdre Rowan
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 1975
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