underground construction

"Explores the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape, discussing the nature of human relationships with caves, catacombs, subway systems, and abandoned mines"--OCLC.

Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.

Looks at how and why tunnels are built, discussing different types of tunnels, the machines that are used to build them and more.

"Explores the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape, discussing the nature of human relationships with caves, catacombs, subway systems, and abandoned mines"--OCLC.

Explores the history of the underground transportation systems, including subways, tunnels, roads, and more.

Collects poems about the world underneath children's feet, from ant cities and fox dens to deeper underground, with subways, sunken towns, and ancient fossils.

Highlights the origin of the first tunnels, the greatest tunnel builders, the evolution and advancement of tunnels that are being built today.

Pictures and questions stimulate discussion about animals, tunnels, pipes, and even men underground.

Explores all things underground, including volcanoes, dinosaur bones, tombs, city works, caves, buried treasure, and more.

Examines remnants of earlier civilizations, such as catacombs and aqueducts, uncovered beneath some of the world's major cities.