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Cargando... Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet (2018 original; edición 2019)por Will Hunt (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Quirky little book about the author’s fascination with caves, tunnels, and other underground spaces - and his conjecture that all humans have an attraction to the underworld. ( ) Hunt is a gifted writer who crafts prose that is at the same time elegant, thoughtful, and vulnerable. I am just not sure that his application of these qualities are directed to their fullest potential in his first nonfiction monograph, Underground. The book splits its time between segmented travel writing and tales of beneath-the-crust adventure that never really dig deep enough to feel like we, as readers, are there along with him – either physically or imaginatively. The book flirts with urban exploration, with history, with religion, with philosophy, with architecture, with with with...but neither slakes a thirst for any of these subjects alone nor makes bold, reliable statements about the link between them that Hunt's 'cult of the underground' is credited with generating. In short, Underground is much more of a personal memoir than a 'Human History' and does not quite cover what is suggested on the cover. It contains an inordinate amount of interspersed philosophical musings, breaking up the flow of the individual tales and collectively doing more to highlight Hunt's wide recall of other writers and poets than giving the reader valuable insights into the author's experiences. In trade for these, we receive not a single citation, which would be most welcome in a book of this nature. Besides this, I am not wholly in accord with Hunt's tendency to wrap his mini-theses in pop-psychology, and I cannot help but wonder whether the divine peace that he claims we, as a species, universally feel underground is really any different to that of a good, uninterrupted stint in the shower when the innumerable distractions of our busy lives are all put aside for a few moments. I do my best thinking there, too. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Out Feet by Will Hunt 2019 Will Hunt became obsessed with the subterranean world as a child, then grew up, went to college, but his interest and love of the exploration of unknown history always stayed constant. It is completely contagious. An exciting part memoir, part history, that Will Hunt takes us on. Into old gold mines, subway stations, ancient caves and underground cities; encountering worlds unknown, and people, like the Mole Man of Hackney, who has lived underground for years. This is fascinating, with many great photos. A fast, fun and inspiring read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Distinciones
Biography & Autobiography.
Travel.
Nonfiction.
Cuando Will Hunt tenía dieciséis años, descubrió un túnel abandonado que pasaba por debajo de su casa en Providence, Rhode Island. Sus primeras incursiones en él le inspiraron una incesante fascinación por la exploración de mundos subterráneos, desde las estaciones de metro abandonadas y las cloacas de Nueva York hasta cuevas sagradas, catacumbas, sepulcros, búnkeres y ciudades subterráneas ancestrales en más de veinte países de todo el mundo. Junto a un equipo de microbiólogos de la NASA, el autor busca los orígenes de la vida dos kilómetros por debajo de las Colinas Negras, acampa tres días con exploradores urbanos en las catacumbas y cloacas de París, desciende con una familia aborigen a una mina de 35.000 años de antigüedad situada en la Australia rural y contempla una escultura sagrada tallada por artistas paleolíticos en las profundidades de una cueva de los Pirineos. En cada aventura se entremezclan hallazgos en los ámbitos de la mitología, la antropología, la historia natural, la neurociencia, la literatura y la filosofía. Con una prosa elegante, Hunt nos abre los ojos a la dimensión oculta del Planeta. En el fondo, Subterráneo es una meditación sobre la fascinación por la oscuridad, el poder del misterio y nuestro eterno deseo de conectar con lo que no podemos ver. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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