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The Underground City
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Author : H.L. Humes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-01-16
The Underground City written by H.L. Humes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-16 with Fiction categories.
Back in print after nearly fifty years–the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review “Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet sharp, insightful, and precise, The Underground City is an astonishing book by a writer of abundant gifts whose resurrection is long overdue.” –Peter Matthiessen It is the late 1940s and Paris is in turmoil. A man named Dujardin is sentenced to death for treason, sparking general strikes and threats of riots across the city. In the meantime, John Stone, a war-weary American and former secret agent, finds himself being investigated as a suspected Communist. What has brought these two men to their fates? H.L. Humes spins a thrilling account of the French underground during the last years of World War II, and the events that lead to the Dujardin affair. His many memorable characters include Adriane, loved by both Stone and Carnot, a fanatic Communist; Bruce Sheppard, the American ambassador to France, a statesman of vision and compassion; and Solange Récamier, the sophisticated young Parisian widow who finds meaning in trying to salvage Stone’s broken life. The Underground City displays H.L. Humes’s youthful literary skill and a striking capacity for fast-paced narrative. This is a brilliant tour de force. “A major achievement . . . [The Underground City] attains its full stature in poetry and truth. . . . [This is a] many-sided, absorbing novel, written on a grand scale, that holds the reader’s attention from the first to the last of its many pages.” –New York Herald Tribune “Magnificent . . . [The Underground City] has verisimilitude and scope, action and depth of emotion.” –Chicago Tribune “A work of power, maturity and distinction.” –Newsweek
The Underground City Illustrated
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-30
The Underground City Illustrated written by Jules Verne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with categories.
An underground city is a series of linked subterranean spaces that may provide a defensive refuge; a place for living, working or shopping; a transit system; mausolea; wine or storage cellars; cisterns or drainage channels; or several of these.The term may also refer to a network of tunnels that connects buildings beneath street level that may house office blocks, shopping malls, metro stations, theatres, and other attractions. These passages can usually be accessed through the public space of any of the buildings connecting to them, and sometimes have separate entries as well. This latter definition encompasses many modern structures, whereas the former more generally covers tunnel systems from ancient times to the present day.Underground cities are especially functional in cities with very cold or hot climates, because they permit activities to be comfortably accessible year round without regard to the weather. Underground cities are similar in nature to skyway systems and may include some buildings linked by skyways or above-ground corridors rather than underground.Some cities also have tunnels that have been abandoned.
The Underground City Jules Verne
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher: Lumbreras Classics Books
Release Date : 2021-06-03
The Underground City Jules Verne written by Jules Verne and has been published by Lumbreras Classics Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-03 with Fiction categories.
A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.
Underground City Illustrated
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-08-29
Underground City Illustrated written by Jules Verne and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-29 with categories.
An underground city is a series of linked subterranean spaces that may provide a defensive refuge; a place for living, working or shopping; a transit system; mausolea; wine or storage cellars; cisterns or drainage channels; or several of these.The term may also refer to a network of tunnels that connects buildings beneath street level that may house office blocks, shopping malls, metro stations, theatres, and other attractions. These passages can usually be accessed through the public space of any of the buildings connecting to them, and sometimes have separate entries as well. This latter definition encompasses many modern structures, whereas the former more generally covers tunnel systems from ancient times to the present day.Underground cities are especially functional in cities with very cold or hot climates, because they permit activities to be comfortably accessible year round without regard to the weather. Underground cities are similar in nature to skyway systems and may include some buildings linked by skyways or above-ground corridors rather than underground.
Secret Underground Cities
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Author : Nicholas J. McCamley
language : en
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Release Date : 1998
Secret Underground Cities written by Nicholas J. McCamley and has been published by Leo Cooper Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
History of the vast underground arsenals, factories and bunkers built by the British government during WWII and the new uses found for them.
Underground Cities
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Author : Mark Ovenden
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Underground Cities written by Mark Ovenden and has been published by Frances Lincoln this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Technology & Engineering categories.
With over 60 per cent of the world’s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a ‘skyline of the underground’ through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography. Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.
The Underground City Or The Black Indies Sometimes Called The Child Of The Cavern
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Underground City Or The Black Indies Sometimes Called The Child Of The Cavern written by Jules Verne and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern)" by Jules Verne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Underground Cities
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Author : John Endicott
language : en
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Release Date : 2020
Underground Cities written by John Endicott and has been published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Cities and towns categories.
New ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space. This book explores how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it sets out practical design approaches, Underground Cities is not a technical manual. Designed for everyone with an interest in the future of our cities, it is beautifully illustrated and written in an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of underworlds, both real and imagined, in art, history and poetry. Global in scope, the book ranges across continents as it surveys the vast expansion in the potential of the underground. The opening section, 'A New Frontier', looks at two pioneering cold-climate cities, Montreal and Helsinki, which developed new uses for the underground from the 1960s on. The closing section, 'Looking Forward', offers glimpses of the city of the future - of what we might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years. Focusing on Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, it shows projects that are going deeper, achieving a greater synergy of uses and preparing the way for new urban forms. In between, it reviews a range of innovative ideas and presents buildings and projects by leading international architects and artists, among them Jun'ya Ishigami, James Turrell, Dominique Perrault and Thomas Heatherwick, which highlight the advances in technology that are making it possible to bring the elements of nature - light, air, vegetation - deep underground. Works include a subterranean oasis, a refuge from the desert heat; a museum extension that deploys light and colour to define space; a multi-modal underground transport hub that evokes the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris, but with an added profusion of plants; and a troglodytic house and restaurant, sunk into the earth to create atmosphere.
The Underground City
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-23
The Underground City written by Jules Verne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with categories.
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The Underground City Annotated
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-31
The Underground City Annotated written by Jules Verne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with categories.
An abandoned mine with mysterious unexplainable happenings is the setting for this adventure by Jules Verne. Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve." Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. The Underground city is set in the mining town of Aberfoyle. James Starr is asked by a friend to come to the mine. When he arrives he finds the mine overman and his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a rich vein of coal but the men must deal with mysterious unexplainable events at the mine while mining the ore.