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Bibliographic Information
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Underground : a human history of the worlds beneath our feet
First edition.
- Author
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Hunt, Will.
- Publisher:
- Spiegel & Grau,
- Pub date:
- [2018]
- Pages:
- 275 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9780812996746
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult nonfiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Holdings
624.1909 HUN
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Adult non-fic hardcover
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Adult nonfiction shelves
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Underground : a human history of the worlds beneath our feet
First edition.
Hunt, Will.
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Underground : a human history of the worlds beneath our feet
First edition.
Hunt, Will.
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Personal Author:
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Hunt, Will.
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Title:
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Underground : a human history of the worlds beneath our feet / Will Hunt.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Contents:
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Descend -- The crossing -- The intraterrestrials -- The ochre miners -- The burrowers -- The lost -- The hidden bison -- The dark zone -- The cult.
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Summary:
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Hunt's first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to the sacred caves, catacombs, and tombs, from bunkers to ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000-year-old sacred mine in the Australian outback, and more. Each adventure is woven with findings in mythology and anthropology, natural history and neuroscience, literature and philosophy. -- adapted from jacket.
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Subject term:
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Underground construction--History.
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Subject term:
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Waste disposal in the ground--History.
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Mines and mineral resources--History.
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Burial--History.
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Subject term:
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Mines and mineral resources--History.
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Subject term:
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Waste disposal in the ground--History.
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Subject term:
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Burial--History.
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Subject term:
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Underground construction--History.