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Underground

A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
CD - unabridged
(6 CDs)
Product Number: CX6602
Released: 01 Sep, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781004008087
Narrator(s): Will Hunt
Publisher: W F Howes
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'Anthropology goes underground in Will Hunt's unclassifiably brilliant foray into human cultures beneath the skin of city streets and rural scapes ... Hunt leads us into illuminating depths and darkness.' Nature 'Beautifully written. Hunt has attuned to the smells and textures of subterranean places (in the dark, visual comparisons don't get you very far) ... winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places.' The Guardian 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 more 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 moulded 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 – this is a graceful meditation on the allure of darkness, the power of mystery, and our eternal desire to connect with what we cannot see. 'A unique history of a culturally and scientifically important netherworld most people barely know exists.' Booklist 'An unusual and intriguing travel book ... A vivid illumination of the dark and an effective evocation of its profound mystery.'Kirkus

Author(s): Will Hunt
Original Publish Date: 01 Sep, 2020

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Author(s): Will Hunt
Narrator(s): Will Hunt
Product Number D6752
Released: 01 Sep, 2020
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004008094
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Author(s): Will Hunt
Narrator(s): Will Hunt
Product Number MPCD5332
Released: 01 Sep, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004008100

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