Caves, Mines and Tunnels - Hardcover

This fascinating page-turner explores the amazing world of caves, mines, and tunnels as they have developed from the times of the Egyptians to the present. The full-page illustrations are a combination of old photographs, computer-generated art, and drawings. All are woven into a collage to explain how people have used the world underground for burial purposes, dwellings, mining, warfare, safety, and transportation. Readers look inside a pictoral representation of King Tut's tomb; find out how children felt working as trappers inside of a coal mine in 1842; discover how the Allied forces in WWII escaped from prisons; learn how diamonds are formed and cut; and much more. This book is ideal for presentations requiring visual aids, or on almost any shelf; it encompasses the realms of science, history, and technology, linking little-known, unusual facts about these three topics on eye-opening spreads and making the information memorable. (diagrams, glossary, index) (Nonfiction. 7-9) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.