Hidden Cities: My Journey Into The Secret World Of Urban Exploration (2013)

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Author

Moses Gates

Genre

Memoir & Autobiography

Rating

3.62 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

1585429341 (ISBN13: 9781585429349)

Language

English

Publisher

Tarcher

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About book Hidden Cities: My Journey Into The Secret World Of Urban Exploration (2013)

This book is a mix of urban exploration, explorer culture and travel memoirs of the author. Each short chapter is a snippet of the author's life as he travels throughout the world looking for new places to explore, often meeting up with other fellow urban explorers. Not only was the history of the places interesting but I found the book to be well written.Overall, I really enjoyed this book and I found it to be an interesting insight into the world of underground sewers, bridge climbs, subway tunnels and catacombs. I had trouble putting this book down! Love the idea of urban exploration, daring to go to unknown and often dangerous depths and heights. Sex on top of the Brooklyn Bridge is ridiculous though, and sometimes the drunken exploits are juvenile when what I wanted was a more factual and descriptive narrative. Loved the repeated visits to the Paris catacombs, Roman aqueducts and New York subways. Underground graffiti art all over the world is fantastic.