Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder

Natural History: A Selection

Pliny the Elder with John F. Healey (Translator)

448 pages first pub 77 (editions)

nonfiction classics history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 t...

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