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Subterranea

Discovering the Earth's Extraordinary Hidden Depths

Chris Fitch Matthew Young

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English
Wildfire
10 November 2020
'AN ORIGINAL AND TIMELY ODYSSEY INTO OUR MYSTERIOUS UNDERWORLD . . . THRILLING PROOF THAT SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION SHARE THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET'

Nicholas Crane, presenter of BBC2's Coast and Great British Journeys

If you were to peel back the Earth's surface like an orange, then take a sly peek underneath, what extraordinary things would you see?

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. Lavishly illustrated and replete with maps and photographs of little-explored locations, Subterranea is the unique, untold and utterly unforgettable story of our planet from the inside.

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Imprint:   Wildfire
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 264mm,  Width: 192mm,  Spine: 34mm
Weight:   1.080kg
ISBN:   9781472272324
ISBN 10:   1472272323
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Chris Fitch is a writer, geographer, and storyteller based in New Zealand. He is a senior staff writer for Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, which has seen him travel from Greece to Australia, from Kenya to the Galapagos Islands, uncovering stories about wildernesses, culture, conservation, and more. Previously he lived in the Solomon Islands, South Korea, and Taiwan. His debut book, Atlas of Untamed Places was nominated for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. His second book, Globalography, was published in November 2018.

Reviews for Subterranea: Discovering the Earth's Extraordinary Hidden Depths

Remarkable places ... glorious illustrations. * Wanderlust magazine * Chris Fitch is fascinated by these fantastical underworlds, and has gone in search of enigmatic cave paintings, eerie plague pits, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the illicit smuggling tunnels snaking between Mexico and the USA. * The Simple Things magazine * Accompanied by stunning photography and illustrative maps, this book is a great way to escape from the outside world by diving into the depths of another. 5 STARS ***** * How It Works magazine * With evocative maps and stunning photography, Subterranea shows that the underground realm is just as captivating as the above-ground world around us. * Daily Mail * An incredible and evocative journey into the most exotic and unknown realms on the planet ... Here is a book that makes you stop and wonder at every page; a deeply engaging guided tour through an eerie world where mankind's old myths and legends seem to acquire a mesmerising reality. * Sinclair McKay * An original and timely odyssey into our mysterious underworld ... Thrilling proof that science and imagination share the ground beneath our feet. * Nicholas Crane, presenter of BBC2's Coast and Great British Journeys *


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