Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945

Book Description

The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life.

The metropolis had long been considered a moral underworld of iniquity and dissolution. As the complex drainage systems, underground railways, utility tunnels, and storage vaults of the modern cityscape superseded the countryside of caverns and mines as the principal location of actual subterranean spaces, ancient and modern converged in a mythic space that was nevertheless rooted in the everyday life of the contemporary city. Writers and artists from Felix Nadar and Charles Baudelaire to Charles Dickens and Alice Meynell, Gustave Doré and Victor Hugo, George Gissing and Emile Zola, and Jules Verne and H. G. Wells integrated images of the urban underworld into their portrayals of the anatomy of modern society.

Book Description

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

Customer Reviews:

A new perspective on things.......2007-06-05

Macaulay uses his amazing talents to turn the world upside down in this unique book. Children (and even adults) will learn all kinds of things about what's beneath a modern city. I enjoyed showing my son the illustrations and explaining what it all means. Do beware, however, that this is a pretty abstract topic and that it can be difficult for younger kids to fully comprehend exactly what's going on. After all, thinking about what a city would like like with all the soil and rock removed and from many feet below street level is not a simple idea. So this one is probably best for older kids, as opposed to earlier works by Macaulay such as Cathedral or Castle that are much more tangible and easy for kids to comprehend.

Great Visual Imagination and Wit.......2007-01-02

Most book illustrators portray buildings from an eagle's eye perspective. A few talented illustrators will open up the buildings and give insightful cross sectional views. What makes this book so special is that David Macaulay shows us buildings from the perspective of looking up from the bedrock on which the building rests. This is unique and is typical of Macaulay's great visual imagination and wit.

This book concentrates on a big city corner where four large buildings sit. The story begins with the foundation excavation, the pouring of foundation pilings and moves up to building infrastructure that sits just below the city street. We are all aware that a great deal of engineering goes into making large cities livable. However, there is nothing like a well illustrated book to help one understand the sheer complexity of our modern infrastructure.

I would recommend this book to older children with an interest in the physical world around them. It is also a great book for adults with an interest in architecture and urban planning. There are illustrators with better drafting skills than David Macaulay but when it comes to sheer imagination, Macaulay is in a league of his own. Highly recommended.

Good clear book for the layman / secondary school child.......2005-09-08

An award winning book, famous amongst teachers of architecture. This book is full of pen and ink cutaway line drawings of just about every underground structure, explaining to the lay person how they all interact. The problem is it is set in the USA, but that aside, it is a very interesting book.

J

anatomy of an infrastructure.......2004-07-12

This book ranks as one of Macaulay's best, as it reveals the networks of systems that are the lifeblood of a city, from various building foundations to sewers to subways, showing how they are constructed and sometimes interact with each other. The text, though minimal, is packed with information, which is supplemented by the superb and detailed drawings. One of the coolest aspects of the book, though, is the views from below, as if a rat with x-ray vision were able to gaze up at this intricate maze of technological wonders. Macaulay's sense of humor is evident throughout, as seen by his inclusion of various critters (including an alligator and an elephant), lots of references to dogs and fire hydrants, a billboard ad for his book PYRAMID, and even a human skull and hand (!!) in one drawing of an excavation. Great fun to read and highly recommended.

"What are those round metal things in the street?".......2002-10-05

What Mr. Macaulay does is pull up a city by the roots, shake the dirt off, and take a no-nonsense (well, maybe a little nonsense) look at what is revealed. The illustrations are clear and informative, with just a touch of whimsy. The book covers sanitary sewers, storm sewers, water lines, electricity, telephone, subways and building foundations. A gift for aspiring civil engineers of all ages!

Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities

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Amazingly Revealing!
What's there beneath our feet..
Explaining the Underworld

Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities
Alex Marshall
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786718641

Book Description

The pulse of great cities may be most palpable above ground, but it is below the busy streets where we can observe their rich archaeological history and the infrastructure that keeps them running. In The Secret Lives of Cities journalist Alex Marshall investigates how geological features, archaeological remnants of past civilizations, and layered networks transporting water, electricity, and people, have shaped these cities through centuries of political turbulence and advancements in engineering — and how they are determining the course of the cities' future.

From the first-century catacombs of Rome, the New York subway system, and the swamps and ancient quays beneath London, to San Francisco's fault lines, the depleted aquifer below Mexico City, and Mao Tse-tung's extensive network of secret tunnels under Beijing, these subterranean environments offer a unique cross-section of a city's history and future.

Stunningly illustrated with colorful photographs, drawings, and maps, The Secret Lives of Cities reveals the hidden worlds beneath our feet, and charts the cities' development through centuries of forgotten history, political change, and technological innovation.

Customer Reviews:

Amazingly Revealing!.......2007-05-30

I highly recommend this book to anyone curious about the history and underworkings of the great cities of the world. It gave me a new appreciation for what goes in to the planning, creation and development of a major city.

What's there beneath our feet.........2007-03-23

I almost started by stating this book isn't for the average reader. But, I'm an average reader, and frankly I found the information within it fascinating. Coincidentally I lived in N.Y.C., and have a little more experience with its underground infrastructure than just having been a straphanger (subway rider). Mr. Marshall has a no nonsense writing style, and his research has resulted in much interesting information regarding what's buried beneath our feet. The history of how, and why things got, and get buried in the first place makes the book all the more enlightening. Especially the consideration that things get buried as a result of debris that accumulates over time, and how history is lost, and then sometimes rediscovered in the process of modernization.

Explaining the Underworld.......2006-12-29

A beautiful book, monumental piece of research, with clear and engaging prose and a great mix of maps, illustrations, capsule histories, lively facts, and timelines. If you ever stood over a manhole or at the dark edge of a subway tunnel and wondered, "What's down there?" then this book will tell you. Beneath the Metropolis describes what's underneath 12 world cities -- New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Mexico City, Paris, London, Rome, Cairo, Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow and Sydney. With pith and concision, Marshall details the infrastructure, the archeology and the geology. In Paris, we learn about the fossilized bones and the beautiful sewers and subways. In Rome, we tour the ancient ruins and rickety subway (did you know there was one?). In Beijing, we learn about the vast network of cold war tunnels that few visit. Marshall uses each city's underground to trace its history, politics and economics. It's a pleasure to learn how successful cities, like London or Paris, can take different approaches to infrastructure. As a fellow author and former Columbia classmate, I admire and envy Marshall's success in wrestling such a huge topic into a pleasurable masterpiece. Beneath the Metropolis is destined for many a reader's nightstand as well as planning and political offices and classrooms.

--Christopher D. Ringwald, author of A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath (Oxford, 2007)

The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

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Living beneath the horizon
The Mole People
Another world exists beneath the streets of NYC
interesting subject, okay book
Opens your eyes whether you want to or not.....

The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
Jennifer Toth
Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 155652241X

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Alligators breeding in the sewers of New York City is an urban legend; thousands of people living in the tunnels beneath New York is not. Ms. Toth has written a compelling, compassionate and extraordinary documentary about the "Mole People."

Book Description

This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.

Customer Reviews:

Living beneath the horizon.......2007-09-30

The 'mole people' are not a singular group of people: their reasons for living in the tunnels are varied, and the degree to which the tunnels constitute 'home' also differs. In the world depicted in Ms Toth's book, there are individuals, collectives and communities existing in (largely) man-made spaces built for other purposes. In this world (as in all worlds), we see triumph, ingenuity, despair and different levels of belonging.

I think that Ms Toth did a good job of presenting what she saw and understood. All realities are relative.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

The Mole People.......2007-09-10

This book was an eye-oener for me. I had no idea so many people lived in the underground of NYC. I also was interested to know that many of thes people are satisfied with their life below the city.

Another world exists beneath the streets of NYC.......2007-09-07

The Mole People provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of society's castaways, people who, for various reasons, chose or were forced to live in the catacombs beneath New York City. Toth describes the society that has evolved under the streets, and details the everyday lives of the misfits, outcasts, and dropouts who inhabit that subterranean world. The vignettes she presents are moving, disturbing and thought provoking, and many times just plain spooky. For instance, Toth often describes her amazement at how quietly the tunnel dwellers moved--most approached so silently that she didn't sense their presence until they were only inches away.

Toth's narrative is gripping--I often felt as if I were reading a suspense novel rather than a work of non-fiction. A chapter midway through the book, entitled "Dark Angel," is especially intriguing. In it, Toth describes a tunnel dweller who many swear is the devil himself. Her description of the man "who knows what will scare you" evoked memories of my first encounter with Randall Flagg in Stephen King's apocalyptic novel The Stand. Toth's description, however, is more frightening because it is based on grim reality.

interesting subject, okay book.......2007-07-24

The subject matter of this book is very interesting, but it is just an okay book. The main problem with the book is that it is repetative, telling parts of the same story over and over again. It also references individual "stories" in the book before they are told, leaving you wondering whether you missed something. However, the book is still interesting; it just leaves you wishing you had a little more.

Opens your eyes whether you want to or not............2007-06-10

This slim volume is original research that is brave, refreshing and depressing. Brave because she descended deep into the guts of New York City which is very dangerous, refreshing because she did her research thoroughly and told it like she experienced it, and depressing because so much of what goes on down there IS an escape from some of the worst aspects of modern life--as bad as it is in the tunnels, there is a sense of community, family, and cooperation that is fading topside. As short as the book is, it took me many nights to finish it: I couldn't really put it down, but I could only digest a little at a time. Instead of fostering morbid fascination, it ellicits compassion and understanding, even a feeling of solidarity with the Mole People....

High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City

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High on this book!!!
An entertaining look at a bygone era
I loved every page of this book
As exciting as a night in Max's Backroom
Fascinating look at a lost time and place

High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City
Yvonne Sewall Ruskin
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560251832

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High on this book!!!.......2002-01-15

Anyone interested in the NYC rock'n'roll scene of the 1960's-'70's should get this book. Warhol's Superstars, the Velvets, Nico, Patti Smith, and so many more all have their place in here! Mickey Ruskin, the owner of Max's, pretty much kept alive 99% of the cities "starving artists" during those times! A lot of popular musicians got their start at Max's, from Bruce Springsteen to Debbie Harry (a former Max's waitress!). If you want to learn more about the "back room" at Max's and all the characters who hung out there, get this book! Lots of entertaining anecdotes from so many different scenesters! Most of these people lived on the edge! Other books I would recommend are "Man Enough To Be a Woman" by Jayne County and "Rebel Heart" by Bebe Buell (they were regulars at Max's as well)!!!

An entertaining look at a bygone era.......2001-06-03

I first read "Please Kill Me" and developed a fascination for this era of American social history. This book describes, through stories and pictures, the various stages of Max's and all the celebrity goings on. Very entertaining, also a high quality edition, of a period of decadence.

I loved every page of this book.......2000-07-26

This book was great, excellent pictures and a great tell all of the time. Nothing was held back from this oral history, very detailed and fun. Yvonne Ruskin did a great job, I felt like I knew these people and since I have never been to Max's and now that it is gone it was alot of fun to see what it was like and sad at the same time because I wish I could of been there.

As exciting as a night in Max's Backroom.......2000-04-18

Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin's "High on Rebellion" is a wonderful recreation of Max's era (1965 thru 1981). Filled with hundreds of photographs (by Leee Black Childers, Anton Perich, Billy Name and others) and hundreds of interview quotes, reading it is like a multimedia experience - as exciting as a night in Max's infamous backroom! For those of us lucky enough to have been there, it is a trip back to the center of the maelstrom... Max's was New York's high energy intersection of the art and music world, where up and coming young ones could brush elbows with Warhol, Patti Smith, Bowie, the NY Dolls, et al. Beautifully designed, this book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the artists, musicians and popular culture of the late sixties and the 1970's. It really is shocking to realize how many young talents succumbed to the excesses of that time, still the book created in me a longing to go back there again! Thanks for a wonderful tribute, Yvonne!

Fascinating look at a lost time and place.......2000-04-04

I often walk past the site where Max's once stood. Even though I only came to New York about three years ago, I already knew the look of that building from photos. Patti Smith said that when she saw the deli that has taken over there, she cried. I found it sad myself and never even went to Max's. Thanks to this fascinating, touching, and sometimes terrifying book, I feel that I got a small taste of what it must have been like. I do realize, however, that "you really had to be there". Of course, if I had been, I might not be here now. Max's was probably way too fast for a guy like me to handle. I might look back fondly like some of the people in this book or I might have jumped off a building like Andrea Feldman. Pick this book up for a heartfelt examination of what was truly a crossroads for pop culture--a place where the only poeple who felt like freaks were the ones who weren't.

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Clever Plot; Competent Writing
Tim Powers light
Take a subway ride through childhood mythic adventure...
Urban fantasy by a master storyteller.
Definitely recommended

Dark Cities Underground
Lisa Goldstein
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312868286

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Ruth Berry wants to be the first reporter in years to interview reclusive Jeremy Jones, the son of famed author E.A. Jones and the hero of her classic children's fantasy books. Jeremy does not want to discuss his childhood; he has forgotten it, he has changed his name to Jerry, and he has not spoken to his mother in many years. But he finds his memories returning when strange events seem to indicate that the Adventures of Jeremy in Neverwas weren't fantasy. He, Ruth, and Ruth's daughter Gilly sink ever deeper into a terrifying underworld, pursued by the villainous Barnaby Sattermole, by Sattermole's monomaniacal archenemy Sneath, and by the relentless Shadow Committee, a secret conspiracy at least as old as human history.

In Dark Cities Underground, American Book Award winner Lisa Goldstein reveals and explores the connections among the worlds of Narnia and Never-Never Land, the Wind in the Willows and Wonderland, myth and legend. But don't read Dark Cities Underground as an escapist secondary-world adventure; that will lead to disappointment, because this novel is about the nature and meaning of otherworlds, and not about disappearing into them. This fine modern fantasy is also about archetypes, childhood, growing up, loyalty, immortality, death, and love. --Cynthia Ward

Book Description

The story of Ruthie, a young journalist sent to interview Jerry, an older man who as a child was the central character of a series of classic childrens books written by his mother, the Adventures of Jeremy in Neverwas. But Jerrys scary fantastic world is real and sucks them in to strange adventures underground, where love and death threaten.

Customer Reviews:

Clever Plot; Competent Writing.......2004-12-30

This is a solid but unexceptionable fantasy novel. Like the work of Tim Powers and others, it assumes a mythic substructure to our mundane world. In this case, the emphasis is on the Egyptian Osiris myth, though other mythic archetypes are involved in the story. The plot, involving the mythical elements, subway construction, and different aspects of children's literature, is ingenious. Other aspects of the book, such as character development and prose in general, do not match the promise of the plot. Worth reading but disappointing in the sense that the potential of the story is never really fulfilled.

Tim Powers light.......2001-09-20

This book shows that Lisa Goldstein clearly is channeling the same spirit as Tim Powers and Neil Gaiman: there's a shadow world just beneath our own, and anyone who can see it risks being labelled crazy...or much worse yet, being noticed by the denizens of the second world.

I say "Tim Powers light", but that's not dismissive - there are times when one doesn't want a 12 course meal. This novel is just an app, a salad, and an entree, but that's not to speak poorly of it. There are paths not taken, and ideas not explored, but one nice effect of that is that one leaves the table feeling full, but not bloated.

Take a subway ride through childhood mythic adventure..........2001-08-07

Could there possibly be a connection between Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit and Wind in the Willows? Could they all be stories that were told, not by the authors to their children, but rather by the children to their parents? Could they all be about the same place, a fantastic world that only children could enter and return to tell stories about?

When a struggling journalist is hired to do a biography of A. E. Jones, the author of the classic children's series "Jeremy in Neverwas", her suspicions are aroused. Especially when she meets the author's son, now a disturbed, middle-aged man, who has become estranged from his mother for stealing his childhood. As she continues her research into truth behind Neverwas she never expects that her own daughter will also be drawn into this fantastic world. A world far more dangerous than any children's book.

This is terrific book. The author ties in history, myth and literature to create a timeless story. A fast paced and exciting roller-coaster ride. No, make that a fast paced and exciting subway ride! You'll get my meaning when you read the book.

Urban fantasy by a master storyteller........2001-03-06

Lisa Goldstein is one of the finest storytellers of our generation, and "Dark Cities Underground" shows this in vivid detail. Who else do you know who can weave together the themes from favorite childrens books sucha as "Alice in Wonderland," "Peter Pan," "The Wind in the Willows," and even "The Hobbit" to create an excursion through the archetypes that form the Dark Cities Underground? Add in enough Egyptian mystery via the tales surrounding Isis, Osiris and Set -- and you have yourself a potent little tale that is hard to forget.

If you like the works of James Blaylock or early Tim Powers, then this is one you should give a try. The characters are well developed, the themes are fascinating, and the book is thoroughly entertaining. Highly Recommended.

Definitely recommended.......2001-02-15

I just finished reading this yesterday. Lisa Goldstein has created an intersting world connecting up the various subways in cities around the world. She also brings in Egyptian mythology, children's literature, and literary archetypes as parts of her Nefer Lands(Netherworld). The only weak aspect was her trying to tie in what seemed like all great children's literature. I could see a connection to some, but not all of the books mentioned.

In all though, it's a pretty good story. The characters are interesting and fleshed out enough to make them sympathetic protagonists or effective antagonists.

Two years ago I bought and read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. There are obvious parallels between that book and Dark Cities Underground. I enjoyed both and would recommend both, but I feel that Neverwhere is the superior book.

DCU is a bit thin. Much is written of the build up to the main characters realizing that something else is down there underground, but there just isn't the development of the underground world the way there is in Neverwhere. I also liked the characters in Neverwhere a bit better.

Read both books and see what you think.

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Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground (OH) (Images of America)
Kevin Grace , and Tom White
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0738533483
Release Date: 2004-10-20

Book Description

Cincinnati Cemeteries is not only a history of graveyards and their occupants. It also investigates the culture of death and dying in Cincinnati: from the infamous Pearl Bryan murder and the 19th-century cholera epidemics, to the body snatchers who stole the corpse of Benjamin Harrison's father and the notorious “resurrection men.” In a city teeming with immigrants and transients these “sack `em up” grave robbers had ample opportunities to supply cadavers to Cincinnati's medical schools. And if fresh graves weren't available, they lurked for victims in the saloons and the dark alleys of Vine Street and the West End.

Telos : The Call Goes Out from the Hollow Earth and the Underground Cities

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great read
Wow
hmmmm... it doesnt seem real
the premise is found wanting
Earth is going through a complete change.

Telos : The Call Goes Out from the Hollow Earth and the Underground Cities
Dianne Robbins
Manufacturer: Mt Shasta Light Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 097009020X

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The Telos book engages you in a communication from Earth's Interior. The book presents series of timely and fascinating messages from the people of the Hollow Earth and from the Golden City of Telos situated beneath Mt. Shasta, CA.

Telos is an ancient Lemurian City of Light that is real and exists to this day in the physical realm, underneath Mt. Shasta. Meet Adama, the High Priest of Telos, as he describes the kind of earthly paradise they have forged for themselves as they raised their consciousness to let go of all violence and negativity. Because they have moved into a consciousness of total love and true Brotherhood, it has been possible for them to survive until now from the time of the sinking of the continent of Lemuria. They have created Heaven on Earth for themselves in their underground cities, and throughout the Hollow Earth. They are looking forward to be coming out, when we are ready, to teach us how to do the same here on the surface.

This book brings magic for all those of you seeking to discover your ancient roots and heritage. This book will re-open your mind and heart to the great possibilities and wonders that are awaiting us on the surface when we finally let go of the old paradigm of duality and violence, and turn to Love and true Brotherhood for all. This book brings all of us so much hope for a better and easier life here on this planet.

Explore the rich family life of the people from the lost continent of Lemuria, who have been underground for the past 12,000 years, and who, due to their isolation from the surface population, have created a civilization of peace and abundance with no sickness, aging or death. They have mastered immortality in physical expression.

Read about the Advanced Civilizations that live in peace and brotherhood in the Center of our Earth, which is Hollow, and contains numerous physical cities of Light, its own inner Central Sun, with oceans and mountains still in their pristine state. Vividly and heroically, Telos delivers a very clear understanding of what is required on the surface to create a prosperous society and a healthy environment. The Telosians, along with many other spiritually advanced civilizations, are very real inside the Earth. They are coming forward at this time to inspire us to follow in their footsteps.

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great read.......2007-10-07

The time is now! This book is a gentle reminder of the world we can co-create when we earth humans work together for the common good of all. It provides a glimpse into a "utopian" society living in peace, harmony and beauty inside our planet. These beings, who emigrated inside Mother Earth before the destruction of Lemuria, reside in 3rd, 4th and 5th dimensional consciousness. The knowledge articulated in a loving manner from Adama and Mikos through Dianne conveys a message of hope and renewal. These beings look forward to a time fast-approaching when our planet will ascend reuniting our two cultures and making possible a reality of great beauty, abundance and love.

Wow.......2006-02-22

My mind is still reeling. Again, this is another one of those books that isn't for everyone; that is, unless they are open-minded and capable of seeing beyond the five senses. The earth is obviously going through some major changes, and it is in our best interest to attempt to understand them beyond the horse manure that passes for news on mainstream TV.

For those who are ready for the next step in evolution -- and if one believes in evolution at all, there is inevitably a next step -- this book is a doorway to the heavens. Open it at your own risk. It will change the way you think...about everything.

hmmmm... it doesnt seem real.......2004-05-16

a work of illuminati misinformation the refrain over and over was when you are ready we will be available. far too much space was devoted to how screwed up the enviornment is but very little if anything on how we can clean it up. It was thoroughly diappointing.

the premise is found wanting.......2004-04-21

The premise of the book is disturbing. Any book which tries to pass itself off as a spiritual guide and offers the beings which dwell below as models must have alot to answer. All spirits were originally created good, some rebelled against their creator and decieve humans with a false "light". Could these be the dwellers beneath? What make us so more advanced than the medieval European theologians who also agreed that the earth is hollow, and not filled with cities of light, but rather with cities of the damned and the apostate angels? This is not negativity, only speculation, for reality is not always nice, and the truth can be painful.

Earth is going through a complete change........2004-01-11

This book Channeled by Robbins presents one of the most outstanding revelations for mankind at the present time; and shockingly this time from Earth's interior.

The details from this unusual work surprised me: that there are millions down there, in Telos and in the Inner Earth, that they have a central sun, a rich, healthy glorious fauna and flora complete with oceans and mountains still in their pristine state.

I am familiar with the story of Shamballa and knew that something peculiar was going on within Mount Shasta but there was no straightforward message from anyone from down there.

Adama, Of the city of telos within Shasta, and Mikos describe a paradise a Shangri-La type where evil is totally unknown.

This fantastic human dreamland must be understood in its emotional and spiritual signification, where love for life and nature, and honesty reign supreme.

In order to maintain their endless spiritual progression Telosians must help us in our spiritual liberation and emotional progression.

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Great book.
It's Time For The Truth
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One Mind, One Earth,

Messages From the Hollow Earth
Dianne Robbins
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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ASIN: 1412005299
Release Date: 2006-06-30

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Not only is the Earth HOLLOW, but it is inhabited by Advanced Civilizations!

Read about the existence of these evolved civilizations that live in peace and brotherhood in the Center of our Earth, which is HOLLOW, and contains an Inner Central Sun, with oceans and mountains still in their pristine state.

Discover the Lost Library of Alexandria!

Customer Reviews:

Great book........2007-01-25

It's up to you - if this appeals to you in any way, you should probably give it a read. I love it.

It's Time For The Truth.......2007-01-09

I must start of by saying this book is absolutely incredible. From the second you begin to read it, you feel the love and positive energy from the true author...Mikos, a great being from the hollow earth. It truly is time for those on earth to become aware of what the universe really has in store. There are more life forms than us here on earth (they are actually in the earth, which is what the book is about).

I recommend that everyone reads this book and please open your mind. A closed mind only shows stupidity and fear of advancing into a great civilization. We must raise our consciousness and become aware of the truth and what a better way to start than with this book. I can say I was truly sad for the 1st time in my life when I finished this book.
**READ THIS BOOK! AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!

Popular Nuttiness for Hollow Minds.......2005-03-07

This book is a tribute to so many people's penchant for wackiness. One of my friends of over thirty years, a retired Continental Airlines pilot, has long been a believer in the hollow-earth concept, surely one of the few most screwball ideas of all time, especially nonsensical for anyone who has achieved any education in astronomy and/or geology. Robbins spins interesting tales about intelligent beings inside our "hollow earth" in the way that J. K. Rowling spins tales about Harry Potter and Hogwarts academy, except that Rowling's readers know that she is writing fiction.

One Mind, One Earth,.......2004-01-21

This book received telepathically by Dianne Robbins, is in fact a mind-boggling and optimistic revelation for us, from the Inner Earth.

Mikos, head of the porthologos Library in Catharia, says that library is a conscious location, the basis and source of information, and live history for all planets of the universe including Earth.

The details are astonishing, that there are millions down there, the presence of a central sun, a rich, glorious fauna and flora complete with oceans and mountains.

Most of us have heard about Shambhala, and Mount Shasta but there was not any straightforward message from anyone down there, except some sporadic revelations, (See Secrets From Mount Shasta)

Mikos describes what appears to be a fantastic paradise comparable to Shangri-La a place based on Love. Within that paradise, integrity, and harmony with the Earth, are supreme in concept, and in conduct.

This is an opportunity to contact others interested in promoting unity on Earth.

Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923

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Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923
David Dorado Romo
Manufacturer: Cinco Puntos Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0938317911

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El Paso/Juarez served as the tinderbox of the Mexican Revolution and the tumultuous years to follow. In essays and archival photographs, David Romo tells the surreal stories at the roots of the greatest Latin American revolution: The sainted beauty queen Teresita inspires revolutionary fervor and is rumored to have blessed the first rifles of the revolutionaries; anarchists publish newspapers and hatch plots against the hated Porfirio Diaz regime; Mexican outlaw Pancho Villa eats ice cream cones and rides his Indian motorcycle happily through downtown; El Paso's gringo mayor wears silk underwear because he is afraid of Mexican lice; John Reed contributes a never-before-published essay; young Mexican maids refuse to be deloused so they shut down the border and back down Pershing's men in the process; vegetarian and spiritualist Francisco Madero institutes the Mexican revolutionary junta in El Paso before crossing into Juarez to his ill-fated presidency and assassination; and bands play Verdi while firing squads go about their deadly business. Romo's work does what Mike Davis' City of Quartz did for Los Angeles-it presents a subversive and contrary vision of the sister cities during this crucial time for both countries.

David Dorado Romo, the son of Mexican immigrants, is an essayist, historian, musician and cultural activist. Ringside Seat to a Revolution is the result of his three-year exploration of archives detailing the cultural and political roots of the Mexican Revolution along la frontera. Romo received a degree in Judaic studies at Stanford University and has studied in Israel and Italy.

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Self-indulgent ramblings.......2007-01-26

Nicely packaged and attractive speaks well for the publisher, but this book could have used a good editor. Author has written a very self-indulgent, rambling book filled with trivia, but often losing sight of the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa. More disappointing, most of the photos in the book have been published numerous times, which is surprising since the author claims to have examined photo archives all over the US! In fact, 70% of the photos in this book come from El Paso/Las Cruces sources--and some of them have nothing to do with the revolution--they were just interesting for the author, so he included them! I'm surprised the book was published in this form and written this way, but it will not sell well outside its target audience in El Paso.

Great Book.......2006-11-10

This book is one of the few scholarly page-turners. It covers the topic in a local-history approach. The use of many, well-chosen photographs, keeps the readers interest. The author's "hook" of viewing the Mexican Revolution from a distance in El Paso is both novel, and effective.

Hear NPR's John Burnett on Romo's book.......2006-01-29

A first rate book, with an excellent collection of photographs. See/listen to John Burnett's NPR radio materials on the David Dorado Romo book, aired Sat., Jan. 28, 2006. NPR web page: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5176177

A Pictoral and Micro-history.......2005-11-29

If you like micro-history, you'll enjoy this book. Rather than dealing with the big events of the day, Romo tells his stories with the details of the day.... details that, put together, make a much larger story. The book is a series of readable essays that are fascinating to those who have an interest in immigration, Pancho Villa, the border and the Mexican Revolution. The pictures alone are worth the price of the book! I recommend it to all students of American and Mexican history.

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