Pompeii

Description:

When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.

subjects: Water-supply,  Volcanoes,  Water supply,  Fiction,  Eruption, 79,  Historical fiction,  Aqueducts,  History,  Engineers,  Large type books,  Fiction, historical, general,  Italy, fiction,  Rome, fiction

Places: Vesuvius (Italy),  Pompeii (Extinct city),  Rome

Times: Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.