Pompeii
Robert Harris
Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct which brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. And now, there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line. This title recreates one of the famous natural disasters of all time.
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Posted by bbh (1 year ago ) Hindsight allows you to know the volcano is going to erupt, but the main character here, responsible to the Roman Emperor for Pompeii's water supply does not. His efforts to find the cause of disruption to the water flow take him onto the flanks of the heaving mountainside and the reader into the political preoccupations which you may find have some modern parallels.
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