The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by:
Jennifer Toth (author)
Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why...
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the topside” world they’ve left behind.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781556522413 (155652241X)
ASIN: 155652241X
Publish date: October 1st 1995
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Pages no: 267
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Book Club,
Journalism,
Culture,
Sociology,
New York,
Anthropology,
Social Science,
Social Issues,
Poverty
She didn't confirm anything she was told, she just happily believed that there is a race of mole people living under the city. It sounds like a Neil Gaiman plot.
I read a book some time ago about underground New York: the vast networks of cables, tunnels, sewers, caverns, old roads, (even complete old sailing ships) that have been found under the city's streets. Well, it turns out there's a whole population of people that live in these subterranean places. ...
I read this for a class in high school. At the time, this book really intrigued me and I thought it was a fascinating story. This kind of a big deal for high school kids who want to get out of the sticky hot class room.Regardless, I was looking at the reviews and seemed to have missed a very key par...
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