Review of 'Underground' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This was rather a good read: not particularly a "history" (and that would be too dry, anyway) but instead a number of stories of discovering caves, subway tunnels, catacombs and more: all with an underlying spiritual message like a rather insistent, repetitive drum, about our relationship to the great unseen underground.
It's compared with a Bill Bryson academic book on the cover; that's as wide of the mark as the subtitle of being a history book. But the Bill Bryson comparison would perhaps work better if it's compared with one of his travel books where he visits new and unknown places; except in this book, all the places are underground.
It certainly makes you think - and as a relatively recent immigrant to Australia, it's fascinating to read a whole chapter on the relationships that our traditional owners have with caves and underground areas.
