Subterráneo

When Will Hunt was sixteen, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran under his home in Providence, Rhode Island. His first forays into it inspired him with an incessant fascination for exploring subterranean worlds, from abandoned subway stations and New York sewers to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers, and ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. world. Together with a team of NASA microbiologists, the author searches for the origins of life two kilometers below the Black Hills, camping for three days with urban explorers in the catacombs and sewers of Paris, descending with an Aboriginal family to a mine of 35,000-year-old located in rural Australia and gazes at a sacred sculpture carved by Paleolithic artists deep within a cave in the Pyrenees. In each adventure discoveries in the fields of mythology, anthropology, natural history, neuroscience, literature and philosophy are interspersed. With elegant prose, Hunt opens our eyes to the hidden dimension of the planet. At its core, Underground is a meditation on the fascination of darkness, the power of mystery, and our eternal desire to connect with what we cannot see.