Underground
Will Hunt
'A mesmerizingly fascinating tale, one astonishing adventure after another. I could not stop reading this beautifully written book.' Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods
'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 (starred review)
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: 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...
'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 (starred review)
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: 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...
种类:
出版社:
Simon & Schuster UK
语言:
english
页:
175
ISBN 10:
147113959X
ISBN 13:
9781471139598
ISBN:
25B1C8F2-C852-4EC3-80DF-7B518F8FA94B
文件:
MOBI , 26.61 MB
IPFS:
,
english0
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