From Gaeta, where the south end of the Volscian range borders abruptly upon the sea, to the peninsula of Sorrento, a broad gulf stretched in remote ages, cutting its way far into the land. Its waves dashed upon the base of the mountains which now, rising with steep slope, mark the eastern boundary of the Campanian Plain—Mt. Tifata above Capua, Mt. Taburno back of Nola, and lying across the southeast corner, the huge mass of Monte Sant' Angelo, whose sharply defined line of elevation is con...

Lost Worlds: A Collection of 9 Books on Extinct Cities gathers archaeology, travel writing, historical speculation, antiquarian scholarship, and imaginative literature around the enduring fascination of vanished urban civilizations. Its range extends from dramatic evocations of ruined worlds to documentary accounts of excavation, inscriptions, monuments, and contested sites. Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and Egyptian landscapes emerge alongside literary visions of antiquity, making the volu...

Erased from History gathers eleven writings in which vanished cities become sites of excavation, fantasy, mourning, and intellectual recovery. Its range is unusually capacious: drama and fiction meet psychoanalytic case history, archaeological report, travel narrative, religious antiquarianism, and speculative satire. Classical ruins, biblical landscapes, and buried urban worlds are approached not merely as dead locations but as provocations to memory and imagination. Particularly compelli...