Book review: Adventures Underground

Alan Jeffreys couldn’t put down the updated edition of Adventures Underground, and not because he’d accidentally glued it to his fingers … The first edition of Adventures Underground first appeared in 2017, and was written very much as an homage to the seminal 1952 Underground Adventure by A. Gemmell and J. Myers. Authors Dave Haigh…

Adventures Underground

The second edition of the popular Adventures Underground by Dave Haigh and John Cordingley is available now from Wildplaces Publishing. The first edition, reviewed here, won the 2017 Tratman Award and sold out very quickly. This revised paperback edition contains three new chapters, adding 48 pages to bring the total to 288. This very readable…

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Book review: Adventures Underground

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