Natural History A Selection - Penguin Classics

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'.

ISBN:	9780140444131
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	29 Aug 1991
DEWEY:	508
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xliii, 399
Weight:	332g
Height:	197mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	28mm

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