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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

Will Hunt

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Description:For fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work, Underground explores the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and in the process reengineers our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet.Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and touch the underworld in ways others could not. Underground is a place of overlapping, often contradictory it is a space that evokes death and burial even as it is a place of origins; it fills us with primordial dread, even as we seek refuge there in times of strife; we dig in search of riches and we bury our most toxic waste. it is a spawning ground for political insurgence and where governments hide their most sensitive secrets. We excavate in search of scientific truth even as it is the ultimate wellspring of mythology, magic, and spirits. Hunt explores Paris underground, the famous network of underground dwellings in Turkey and the hallowed caves of Australian outback; he spelunks 8000 feet into abandoned mines in South Dakota with NASA scientists. This is an idiosyncratic, fascinating narrative history that changes our relationship to and our understanding of the world that lies beneath our feet.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet. To get started finding Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 288

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ISBN: 0812996755

Description: For fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work, Underground explores the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and in the process reengineers our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet.Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and touch the underworld in ways others could not. Underground is a place of overlapping, often contradictory it is a space that evokes death and burial even as it is a place of origins; it fills us with primordial dread, even as we seek refuge there in times of strife; we dig in search of riches and we bury our most toxic waste. it is a spawning ground for political insurgence and where governments hide their most sensitive secrets. We excavate in search of scientific truth even as it is the ultimate wellspring of mythology, magic, and spirits. Hunt explores Paris underground, the famous network of underground dwellings in Turkey and the hallowed caves of Australian outback; he spelunks 8000 feet into abandoned mines in South Dakota with NASA scientists. This is an idiosyncratic, fascinating narrative history that changes our relationship to and our understanding of the world that lies beneath our feet.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet. To get started finding Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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