In 1963, a man in the Turkish town of Derinkuyu broke through a wall in his house and found a passage behind it. It led down into a forgotten city cut into the rock: stables, chapels, wells, and great stone doors that could only be rolled shut from the inside.Beneath the Surface goes down into twenty-three underground places - refuges, catacombs, salt cathedrals, secret tunnels - and into the reasons people dug them: to hide, to bury their dead, to escape the heat, and a few reasons we still cannot explain.Inside this revised and expanded edition: Descend through Derinkuyu, Kaymakli and the hidden network of Cappadocia, where whole villages vanished underground when the raiders cameWalk the catacombs of Rome and Paris, where millions of the dead were laid to rest beneath the living cityStand in the salt cathedrals carved by miners at Wieliczka and Salina TurdaExplore the Hypogeum of Malta, the Longyou Caves of China, the Edinburgh Vaults, the Seattle Underground and the opal town of Coober PedyCrawl into the Erdstall tunnels of Central Europe, dug in the Middle Ages for a purpose no one has yet explainedWeigh the legends: the Labyrinth of Egypt, the metal library of the Tayos Cave, the Egyptian cave of the Grand Canyon, and the hollow EarthWith 48 maps and diagrams. Each chapter tells the story of the place, separates what is documented from what is only rumoured, and ends with what you need to know to visit it yourself.This is Book One of the Beneath series. Continue with Beneath the Waves, Beneath the Sands and Jungles, Beneath the Ice and Beneath the Stone.
