Titre:
Subterranea : journey into the depths of the Earth's most extraordinary underground spaces
Auteur:
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PUBDATE:
2021
2020
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021.
©2020
Description matérielle:
xiii, 225 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9781643261096
Résumé:
Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's where humans have kept their most sacred treasures and their darkest secrets. It's where we have found evidence of our past and may, at some point, find an escape route for our uncertain future. But what would we find there today? From the underground cities of Cappadocia to smuggling tunnels on the US-Mexico border, caves full of tiny blind dragons and a seed vault located 1300km inside the Arctic circle, Subterranea demonstrates that the world below our feet is every bit as vivid and evocative as the world we see around us.
Note générale:
Previously published as Subterranea : discovering the Earth's extraordinary hidden depths in United Kingdom by Wildfire in 2020.
Table des matières:
Introduction -- Part I: Creation. Waitomo Caves, New Zealand ; Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico ; Postojna Cave, Slovenia ; Veryovkina Cave, Georgia ; Kazumura Cave, USA ; Cueva de Villa Luz, Mexico ; Deer Cave, Malaysia ; Pando, USA ; Dark Star Cave, Uzbekistan ; Palaeoburrows, Brazil -- Part II: Ancient history. Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, France ; Derinkuyu, Turkey ; Mausoleum of the first Qin emperor, China ; Herculaneum, Italy ; Labyrinthos Caves, Greece ; Tenochtitlan, Mexico ; Basilica Cistern, Turkey ; Elephanta Caves, India ; Qumran Caves, Israel ; Cueva de los Tayos, Ecuador -- Part III: Modern history. London Underground, United Kingdom ; Tunnel 57, Germany ; Burlington, United Kingdom ; Coober Pedy, Australia ; Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam ; Camp Century, Greenland ; Great Man-Made River, Libya ; Sonnenberg, Switzerland ; Darvaza Gas Crater, Turkmenistan ; G-Cans, Japan -- Part IV: Today. Large Hadron Collider, Switzerland/France ; Otay Mesa, USA/Mexico ; Guatemala City Sinkholes, Guatemala ; Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway ; Helsinki Underground City, Finland ; Kolwezi Mines, Democratic Republic of the Congo ; Jerusalem Cemeteries, Israel ; Concordia Research Station, Antarctica ; Los Angeles Tunnels, USA ; Hellisheidi, Iceland.
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LANGUAGE:
Anglais
