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Underground Worlds

David Farley

Author : David Farley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780316514002

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A visual and anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, including ancient cities, salt mine cathedrals, underground amusement parks, and more. From bone-filled catacombs to sculpted salt churches to hand-carved cave complexes large enough to house 20,000 people, Underground Worlds is packed with more than 50 unusual destinations that take some digging to find. Award-winning travel writer David Farley revels in the unexpected, whether it is a cave city in China which houses one of the world's largest collections of Buddhist art or an old salt mine converted into a theme park in Romania. Stunning photos help readers see places they could not even imagine, such as a three-story underground train station in Taiwan that is home to the a 4,500-panel "Dome of Light" that is the largest glasswork on Earth, as well as secret spaces, such as an ornate temple built beneath a suburban home in Italy. Throughout the fascinating text are themed entries of underground systems such as the 2,500-year-old water tunnels of Kish Qanat in Iran or engineering marvels like the New York City steam tunnels.

Underground

Will Hunt

Author : Will Hunt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471139598

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Underground by Will Hunt Pdf

'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) 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.

Invisible Chains

Benjamin Perrin

Author : Benjamin Perrin
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780143178972

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Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community. The global problem of human trafficking is only beginning to be recognized in Canada, even though it has been hidden in plain sight. In Invisible Chains, Benjamin Perrin, an award-winning law professor and policy expert, exposes cases of human trafficking, recording in-depth interviews with people on the front lines—police officers, social workers, and the victims themselves—and bringing to light government records released under access-to-information laws.

Underground Cities

Mark Ovenden

Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781781318942

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Underground Cities by Mark Ovenden Pdf

With over 60 per cent of the world’s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a ‘skyline of the underground’ through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography. Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.

Discovering the Secret World of Nature Underground

Petra Bartíková,Marcel Králik

Author : Petra Bartíková,Marcel Králik
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781637410370

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Discovering the Secret World of Nature Underground by Petra Bartíková,Marcel Králik Pdf

Young readers discover the fascinating world of animals and insects that live underground in this beautifully illustrated children’s book. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an animal that lives underground? Now you can find out! With each turn of the page, this engaging picture book reveals dozens of adorable illustrations, educational captions, vocabulary words, and more—all exploring the underground habitat of several kinds of animals. From rabbits and mice to badgers, ants, and other insects, children will love learning all about these busy animals that burrow below! This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book

Raw Combat:

Jim Genia

Author : Jim Genia
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780806535265

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Raw Combat: by Jim Genia Pdf

A unique look into a side of MMA that only a few know and only Genia can give. —Chris Palmquist, partner, MixedMartialArts.com Out Freakin' Cold Forget pay-per-view. Forget championship belts or sanctioning bodies. This is Mixed Martial Arts combat in its purest, rawest form. Follow Jim Genia into the illicit world of vale tudo (anything goes). Locations are always changing and known only to a few, from run-down, shuttered gyms to speakeasy combat cages. The ruthless damage exacted on the human body leaves a trail of hard-won scars. The fighters battle for everything but a payday, risking it all for honor and pride. In a world of conformity, these are men of action who struggle against rules, selling out, and their own demons. Jim Genia offers on-the-mat access to a brutal arena and the men who spill their blood there. "Captures the good, the bad, and the ugly." —Matthew Polly, author of American Shaolin "It's a raw, wild scene and Genia takes you in his pocket for the ride." —Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter's Heart 16 Pages of No-Holds-Barred Photos

Terror in the Underground Tunnel

Dee Phillips

Author : Dee Phillips
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684029815

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David and Emma were thrilled to accompany their mom to London to watch the filming of her movie. They were even more excited when they found out the movie would be set in an abandoned subway station! When the brother and sister decide to explore the old, crumbling station, however, they hear the cries of a ghostly child— just as they spot a phantom subway train barreling toward them. Soon, they find themselves becoming part of a terrifying story that took place more than 70 years ago! What will happen if David and Emma step aboard the ghostly train? The answers can be found in the maze of passageways and dark tunnels deep below the streets of London. Join David and Emma as they step into the past to uncover the terror in the tunnel. Terror in the Underground Tunnel is part of Bearport’s Cold Whispers II series. This bone-chilling book is the fiction companion to Dark Labyrinths from Bearport’s best-selling nonfiction series Scary Places.

Journey to the Underground World

Lin Carter

Author : Lin Carter
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473220737

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Journey to the Underground World by Lin Carter Pdf

The legends of a fabled land of the lost have floated for centuries around the bazaars of North Africa and the sand-surrounded oases of the vast Sahara. They tell of treasure caravans that have never returned, of weird monsters forgotten by time, of savage peoples surviving out of antiquity. Eric Carstairs had heard these tales but until he met Professor Potter he did not really believe them. But the famous palaeontologist had the location of the entrance to the Underground World pinned down, and wanted only a man of courage to fly him there. Carstairs and Potter took the chance - and pierced the pit to Zanthodon, a world within the world, where cavemen and cave-beasts roamed side by side with dinosaur-monsters of millions of years ago.

Lying Beneath

Kevin Moran

Author : Kevin Moran
Publisher : An Ink Mover
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984309634

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Lying Beneath by Kevin Moran Pdf

Underneath the city lies an advanced society, and its dark secrets could bury her alive. Ayla worries she'll be stuck waitressing for pennies until she dies. She longs for adventure, for something to save her from the paycheck-to-paycheck life she lives with her long-time boyfriend, Derek, who plays it safe and only half-tolerates her thirst for exploration. With her trusty camera in tow, she explores abandoned buildings, searching for something—anything—interesting. One night, an outing leads her to a mysterious trapdoor in the floor which leads to a futuristic society right beneath her feet. This is the adventure she's been looking for, but the people underground don't appreciate her intrusion and she quickly finds herself locked up and questioned. They think she's a spy, their questions are getting more intrusive, and Derek has no idea where she is. Ayla must find a way out of this underground world that's not at all the adventure she thought she wanted, or she may never see Derek again...

The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet

Anthony J. Martin

Author : Anthony J. Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681773759

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The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet by Anthony J. Martin Pdf

What is the best way to survive when the going gets tough? Hiding underground. From penguins to dinosaurs, trilobites, and humans, Anthony Martin reveals the subterranean secret of survival. Humans have “gone underground” for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War–era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing, the planet would be very different today. Many animal lineages alive now—including our own—only survived a cataclysmic meteorite strike 65 million years ago because they went underground. On a grander scale, the chemistry of the planet itself had already been transformed many millions of years earlier by the first animal burrows, which altered whole ecosystems. Every day we walk on an earth filled with an under-ground wilderness teeming with life. Most of this life stays hidden, yet these animals and their subterranean homes are ubiquitous, ranging from the deep sea to mountains, from the equator to the poles. Burrows are a refuge from predators, a safe home for raising young, or a tool to ambush prey. Burrows also protect animals against all types of natural disasters: fires, droughts, storms, meteorites, global warmings—and coolings. In a book filled with spectacularly diverse fauna, acclaimed paleontologist and ichnologist Anthony Martin reveals this fascinating, hidden world that will continue to influence and transform life on this planet.

Walk This Underground World

Kate Baker

Author : Kate Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Burrowing animals
ISBN : 1787413764

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Walk This Underground World by Kate Baker Pdf

A round-the-world adventure exploring curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, from underground burrows to ancient cities and shopping malls. Fourth book in the successful Walk this World series. This stunning lift-the-flap book takes the reader on a journey all around the globe and deep underground. There they'll find amazing hidden worlds, teeming with life - from prairie dog towns and ant cities, to opal mines and treasure-filled tombs. Each spread is bursting with details and has new surprises to discover in the cutaway artwork and under the flaps. With so much to see and explore, this is a perfect gift for young adventurers.

Secret Underground Cities

Nicholas J. McCamley

Author : Nicholas J. McCamley
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arsenals
ISBN : UOM:39015047737484

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Secret Underground Cities by Nicholas J. McCamley Pdf

History of the vast underground arsenals, factories and bunkers built by the British government during WWII and the new uses found for them.

Exploring Soils

Samantha Grover

Author : Samantha Grover
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486305018

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Exploring Soils by Samantha Grover Pdf

Have you ever wondered what happens in the earth underneath us? James has, and he wants to learn more about soil. In Exploring Soils: A Hidden World Underground, James discovers that soil is not just dirt for digging in. He explores how plants and animals live in soil, how soils are formed, how they differ, and the ways that soil is essential in our lives. Written by Samantha Grover, a soil scientist and parent, and with engaging illustrations by artist Camille Heisler, Exploring Soils will take you to an underground world filled with activity and discoveries. Perfect for ages 6 – 9.