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Hunt, Will (Urban adventurer)
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Underground construction.
Waste disposal in the ground.
Burial.
Mines and mineral resources.
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Hunt, Will (Urban adventurer)
Underground construction.
Waste disposal in the ground.
Burial.
Mines and mineral resources.
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Underground : a human history of the worlds beneath our feet / by Will Hunt.
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Hunt, Will (Urban adventurer)
Spiegel & Grau, c2018.
Call #:
624.19 H943u
Subjects
Underground construction.
Waste
disposal
in the ground.
Burial.
Mines and mineral resources.
ISBN:
9780812996746 (hc.)
0812996747 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Descend -- Across Paris -- The intraterrestrials -- The ochre miners -- The burrowers -- Lost -- The hidden bison -- The dark zone -- Humberto.
Summary:
"An exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet--for fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work. Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, ghostly mines, and all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation, 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 associations: 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 the place governments hide their most sensitive secrets. We excavate in search of scientific truth even as we recognize it as 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 the Australian outback; he spelunks eight thousand feet into abandoned mines in South Dakota with NASA scientists and experiments with time alone in absolute darkness."--Publisher's description.
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