Volcanic by John Brewer

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/129456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Volcanic Author: John Brewer Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins Release date: 12-12-23 Ratings: 2 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Italy Publisher's Summary: Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavor and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travelers to their sublime confrontation with nature.