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Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. More Jon Astbury

Though historians consider the 17th century to be “the golden age of libraries,” these futuristic libraries suggest a biblio-renaissance is well underway. Once a silent sanctuary for books, today—thanks to new technology and trailblazing design—contemporary interpretations of the humble education and resource hubs are far from quiet. In these modern versions, you’ll find dynamic tools and spaces, from podcast recording studios to game development labs. Robotic book-retrieval systems have made way for communal spaces punctuated with art, turning the library into a social sphere. Skurka, Norma. ; Gili, Oberto. [Richard Burroughs Carla de Benedetti John T Hill Norman McGrath Tim Street-Porter Bernard Wolff Antony Miralda Dorothee Miralda Catherine Desmarets Zandra Rhodes Samuel Bury Christine Bury Marina Lante della Rovere Gilardi: Una de ellas fue en 2011, cuando en medio de un viaje por el Mayab que incluyó recorrer dos de mis estados favoritos del país y dos estados nación vecinos; mi hermana y yo tuvimos la buena idea de contratar un tour a la cueva ATM en Belice. Hunt hace exactamente lo mismo en el libro y no pude sino contrastar con alegría mi experiencia a la suya. El capítulo donde se relata la expedición de Hunt a la cueva ATM es el último del libro, donde el tema principal es la relación religiosa del hombre con las cuevas. El autor cuenta la reverencia y la gravedad y lo sagrado de la experiencia de bajar al Xibalbá. Ese día, 19 de Julio de 2011, fue una jornada no voy a decir que mística, pero sí de exagerada y frenética dicha. Nadar al interior de la cueva, seguir el camino del agua entre riachuelos y oquedades y luego salir a contemplar las cámaras con sus estalactitas y ofrendas, trepar por entre rocas y finalmente subir la escalera de metal para ir a conocer a la pobre muchacha que le tocó la de perder me hizo sentir increíblemente feliz, con un arrebato que en aquel año que estaba siendo difícil para mí reafirmó mi pasión por los espacios subterráneos. I really enjoyed this book. Hunt not only explores the actual underground spaces from New York to Australia and Paris to Mexico, but extends his exploration to how underground space has influenced the human psyche and behavior from the beginning. He talks about the psychology of being underground, the role underground spaces play in various religious beliefs around the world and even how life may have evolved deep underground rather than in a the hot soup at the surface.Perhaps we can’t begrudge these withholdings. After all, adventure belongs solely to the adventurer himself. We, the reader and witness, are allowed only the glimpse we deserve from the safety of our armchairs, lit with reading lamps and a comfortable cup of tea at our side. Some things must be left undiscovered and undocumented, left for our own internal meanderings which I believe the author hopes to inspire by his documentation of a subsurface largely unknown. Unicorn, in the Hall of the BullsAs we move more towards what we term scientific, we forget other possibilities. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Dieses Buch ist für mich nicht zu besprechen ohne ständige Verweise auf das ähnliche und doch sehr andere Buch Im Unterland von MacFarlane. Im Vergleich zu MacFarlane finde ich dieses Buch viel lesbarer, viel stringenter, viel fesselnder. Dabei ist die Anlage sehr ähnlich: Kombiniert werden die eigenen Abenteuer im Untergrund mit recherchierten Fakten und literarischen Zitaten.

Y pues, al igual que pasó con el libro de Waterlog (Diarios del Agua), ésta es una reseña de un libro de no ficción que sirve mejor para explicar su rating que haciendo que se trate de mí. Lo siento.Though most of us feel like aliens when going underground, there is for some a feeling of coming home again. Even when that home is like a haunted house with spiders the size of chihuahuas.

When the author wrote of a man from 1818 named John Cleves Symmes who declared his intent to lead a voyage to the interior of the earth to prove that it was hollow and habitable, I couldn’t help but think of Alice in Wonderland. While in the end, Symmes was considered a loon who wasted his life chasing fairy tales of underground lands, before that he sparked the imagination of many. It seems likely it sparked the imagination of the man that sparked the world’s imagination, the author of Alice in Wonderland. There is little doubt that tales from the likes of Jules Verne, HG Welles, and Frank Baum were sparked from Symmes too. My favorite chapters were those on the caves, a topic that did not draw me to this book; it was the underground cities that had caught my interest. When Will writes, you see it all, you feel it all. First there were the cave paintings, which I had always found to be beautiful when seeing them in books or on the walls of a class room at college. Then there were the two bison sculptures made of clay from the cave. Whenever people came into the cave, Tuc d'Audoubert, they felt a sense of worship. A sacredness. It was in these caves that the cave dwellers had their religious ceremonies. They danced themselves into trances, seen by the footprints that had remained in the cave all these years. But what is more, being in a dark cave, in total darkness can cause the mind to expand. You get visions. After the author shares his first adventure under his childhood home in Rhode Island he moves on to underground adventures around the world. Will Hunt chronicles his search for meaning in the oft undiscovered world beneath our feet with a work that is part travel journal, part anthropological study. Hunt writes of his numerous explorations underground from the catacombs of Paris and the vast tunnels of NYC, to untouched caves in South America and Australia—and everything in between. His thoughtful commentary remarks on the discoveries of some of history’s greatest minds juxtaposed with that of the common traveler turned dirt evangelist, a commentary proving that an enduring and utterly human fascination with the underground world has always existed and will exist inevitably into the future.

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