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The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny The Elder), John F. (Introduction By) Healey, The Elder Plinny, John F. Healy, J.F. Healy (Tr.), Healy Pliny, John Healey (Foreword) Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1991 ISBN-10: 0-14-044413-0 / 0140444130 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044413-1 / 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 |