Subterráneo

When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran under his home in Providence, Rhode Island. His early forays into it inspired him with a relentless fascination with exploring subterranean worlds, from the abandoned subway stations and sewers of New York to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers, and ancient subterranean cities in more than twenty countries around the world. world. Together with a team of microbiologists from NASA, the author searches for the origins of life two kilometers below the Black Hills, camps for three days with urban explorers in the catacombs and sewers of Paris, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000 years old located in rural Australia and see a sacred sculpture carved by Paleolithic artists in the depths of a cave in the Pyrenees. Findings in the fields of mythology, anthropology, natural history, neuroscience, literature and philosophy are intermingled in each adventure.