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A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers, and ancient underground cities in than twenty countries around the world Underground is both a personal exploration of Hunt s obsession and a panoramic study of how we are all connected to the underground, how caves and other dark hollows have frightened and enchanted us through the ages.In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt follows a cast of subterraneaphiles who have dedicated themselves to investigating underground worlds He tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, camps out for three days with urban explorers in the catacombs and sewers of Paris, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000 year old mine in the Australian outback, and glimpses a sacred sculpture molded by Paleolithic artists in the depths of a cave in the Pyrenees.Each adventure is woven with findings in mythology and anthropology, natural history and neuroscience, literature and philosophy In elegant and graceful prose, Hunt cures us of our surface chauvinism, opening our eyes to the planet s hidden dimension He reveals how the subterranean landscape gave shape to our most basic beliefs and guided how we think about ourselves as humans At bottom, Underground is a meditation on the allure of darkness, the power of mystery, and our eternal desire to connect with what we cannot see.PRAISE FOR UNDERGROUND A mesmerizingly fascinating tale I could not stop reading this beautifully written book Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods Few books have blown my mind so totally, and so often In Will Hunt s nimble hands, excursion becomes inversion, and the darkness turns luminous There are echoes of Sebald, Calvino, and Herzog in his elegant and enigmatic voice, but also real warmth and humor An intrepid but far from fearless journey, both theoretically and terrestrially Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails Underground left me, for days, wanting to go there down, down, down, into the moisture and the mystery It succeeds as reportage, as memoir, as historical survey and philosophical reflection Will Hunt is a generous and literate mole man, beckoning us always to look lower Ted Conover, author of Newjack An unusual and intriguing travel book, into the world beneath the world we know a vivid illumination of the dark and an effective evocation of its profound mystery Kirkus Reviews starred review Underground is for anyone who s ever peered into a crack in the earth and felt that peculiar blend of unease and curiosity Read this and you will never look at the ground beneath you in the same way again Steve Rinella, author of MeatEater and American Buffalo Will Hunt explores the subterranean world in all of its historic and psychological grandeur This tour de force just might make you want to pull on a pair of rubber boots and strap on a headlamp to get a peek at the places we ve forgotten Scott Carney, New York Times bestselling author of What Doesn t Kill Us Best Download [ Underground ] author [ Will Hunt ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr To be fair, I wrote this bookWill Hunt spent time in the N.Y underground, the subway tunnels Revs did as well Revs was a graffiti artist who spent many years using N.Y City as a canvas He became famous, but not in a way that made him money Then Revs took a ladder, paints, and other tools of his trade into the subway tunnels at night when no one was watching He picked out the most obscure sections, tose filled with darkness, to begin writing his book With a paint roller and yellow or white paint, he made large book p Will Hunt spent time in the N.Y underground, the subway tunnels Revs did as well Revs was a graffiti artist who spent many years using N.Y City as a canvas He became famous, but not in a way that made him money Then Revs took a ladder, paints, and other tools of his trade into the subway tunnels at night when no one was watching He picked out the most obscure sections, tose filled with darkness, to begin writing his book With a paint roller and yellow or white paint, he made large book pages his ladder came in handy Then he took a spray can of black paint and began writing his life down Will Hunt copied down his writings, but hed found it dangerous to dodge the trains He met Revs once, and he tried to ask him questions about his art in those tunnels, but Revs wasn ...Very cool book about the unique world of our subterranean landscape Whether it be subway systems, mines, catacombs, underground tunnels, etc This is a fascinating world tour penned by an urban explorer who documents...Imagine yourself on an afternoon hike, stooping to push aside branches blocking a walk that meandered off the beaten path, and upon removing the pile of debris feeling the breath of a world beneath you coming from a small obscure opening in the ground It takes a certain type of person to venture into this opening.Interesting and well researchedphilosophical than I expected Author Will Hunt, I discovered, is equal parts thrill seeker, philosopher, and academic The mythology and other pi Imagine yourself on an afternoon hike, stooping to push aside branches blocking a walk that meandered off the beaten path, and upon removing the pile of debris feeling the breath of ...One of the best works of non fiction I ve read in a while Elegantly written, meticulously researched Hunt went everywhere for this book So many discoveries to be made about the world s caves, catacombs, mines, sewers and other holes in the ground And it s beautifully illustr...Underground is one of the most poetic, breathtaking and ambitious books I have read in a long time Hunt offers a delightful and unexpected journey, a fantastic expedition full of discoveries, surprising facts and wonderful anecdotes He is a clever and tenacious explorer, who places himself as an illuminating guide through the most secretive and curious places in a world I never suspected could exist It is a boundary breaking tale set between past legends and rituals, secret tunnels alive righ Underground is one of the most poetic, breathtaking and ambitious books I have read in a long time Hunt offers a delightful and unexpected journey, a fantastic expedition full of discoveries, surprising facts and wonderful anecdotes He is a clever and tenacious expl...This non fiction work starts off as a personal, memoir exploration of the author s preoccupation with subterranean worlds and expands into a much broader investigation, which ultimately explores the very roots of human spirituality A unique and poetic and illuminating read.And this is why it is inadvisable to take recommendations from Overdrive, I guess, because I m sure this book would be great for someone, but it was a resounding meh for me.The book is part travelogue, part philosophical meandering, and here s the thing I am always here for travel stories, but you have to earn your wittering on about the human psyche and the universal urge and blah blah numinous liminal holy blah You also have to keep the ratio of actual narrative to things you think about whe And this is why it is inadvisable to take recommendations from Overdrive, I guess, because I m sure this book would be great for someone, but it was a resounding meh for me.The book is part travelogue, part philosophical meander...Underground A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet is an extraordinarily well researched book about the cavernous realm just beneath us Will Hunt is our Virgil, guiding us into and through the subterranean world, and enthusing this tour with erudition, vitality, and an explorer s yearning to explore our world and our place in it Will Hunt s writing masterfully evokes W.G Sebald he mixes travelogue, biography, autobiography, history, science, documentary, and literary criticism An Underground A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet is an extraordinarily well researched book about the cavernous realm just beneath us Will Hunt is our Virgil, guiding us into and through the subterranean world, and enthusing this tour with erudition, vitality, and an explorer s yearning to explore our world and our place in it Will Hunt s writing masterfully evokes W.G Sebald he mixes travelogue, biography, autobiography, history, science, documentary, and literary criticism And inUnderg...I requested this book thinking it would be about something entirely different and was pleasantly surprised by what i found This book travels literally into many different types of underground and goes into the historical, religious, and artistic aspects of eac...

Underground
  • English
  • 05 September 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 288 pages
  • Will Hunt
  • Underground