PREVIEW

L'ÉRUPTION DU VÉSUVE

Intermediate (Grades 7 and up) Re-live the terror and the courage which marked the first ever volcanic eruption recorded by eye witnesses in 79 AD. Roman admiral Plin races his boat straight into an inferno of falling lava rocks, toxic gases and pumice to save the village of Stabia. Will he make it? Features a fiction story, a two-page fact section and end-of-book exrecises.