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Subterranean Twin Cities (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 730
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Subterranean Twin Cities (Paperback)
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Loot Price R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
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"Subterranean Twin Cities is a treasure-a book for the Tom Sawyer
in all of us. Greg Brick is one of those few persons with the
unique talent to write expertly about his adventures, bringing
readers along with him on hands and knees." -Steve Thayer, author
of Saint Mudd and The Weatherman. We tend to send things
underground that we are not interested in ever seeing again.
Sewage. Garbage. In the past, we have used the underground to age
such provisions as cheese and beer. In Subterranean Twin Cities,
geologist, historian, and urban speleologist Greg Brick takes us on
an adventurous, educational, and-thankfully-sanitary tour beneath
the streets and into the myriad tunnels, caves, and industrial
spaces that make up the Twin Cities' fascinating and surprisingly
vast underground landscape. In this groundbreaking tour, the first
of its kind of the Twin Cities, Brick mines the stories that lie
below the city surface. Beginning with an accessible history on the
geology of the area-including the giant cone-shaped mollusk
Endoceras, whose thirteen-foot-long fossils are found in the
Mississippi gorge-Brick guides us into a series of astounding
firsthand expeditions. We follow him into St. Paul's historic
Carver's Cave, with its stories of sunken treasure; through the
many caves constructed for brewing, cheese ripening, and mushroom
farming; and into the world of nineteenth-century show caves for
tourists. We even find ourselves in the "Shangri-la" of urban
caves: the extensive Schiek's Cave seventy-five feet beneath the
busy streets of downtown Minneapolis. From spending the onset of
Y2K in Carver's Cave (just in case) to long hours wading in
underground rivers, Brick proves himself a knowledgeable, wry, and
daring guide. Subterranean Twin Cities shines a headlamp (with
extra batteries, of course) into the captivating labyrinths beneath
the Twin Cities and reminds us that what we see aboveground is
really only half of the story.
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