Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics This item Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics by Gaius Plinius Secundus Pliny the Elder Paperback 1139 In Stock Ships from and sold by Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics by Gaius Plinius Secundus Pliny the Elder Customer reviews Natural History A Selection These selections from the Natural History are fascinating Pliny was an energetic man hugely desirous of literary immortality who wrote his books in the interstices of a full career as a soldier and an administrator 0140444130 Natural History a Selection Penguin Classics Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics Gaius Plinius Secundus Pliny the Elder John F Healey Introduction Published by Penguin Classics 1991 Natural History by Pliny the Elder 9780140444131 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 waterclock or the use of asses’ milk to remove wrinkles Download PDF Natural History A Selection Penguin Download Book Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics in PDF format You can Read Online Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics here in PDF EPUB Mobi or Docx formats Natural History A Selection Penguin Classics This video is unavailable Watch Queue Queue Watch Queue Queue Natural History A Selection by Gaius Pliny and Gaius Natural History A Selection Paperback by Pliny the Elder Healy John F TRN ISBN 0140444130 ISBN13 9780140444131 Brand New Free shipping in the US Presents a view of the world in the first century AD covering such topics as astronomy geography art and zoology Natural History A Selection by Pliny the Elder The Natural History in its entirety is one of the largest extant Roman texts and the Penguin edition contains selections from 32 of the 37 books overall perhaps 25 of the complete work This is plenty for all readers other than true specialists Natural History Quotes by Pliny the Elder Goodreads “Contact with menstrual blood turns new wine sour crops touched by it become barren grafts die seed in gardens are dried up the fruit of trees fall off the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled hives of bees die even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust and a horrible
Title : Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
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Release Date : 1991-12-03
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