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Book review: Hollow Earth: Hole lot of trouble when the world's turned inside out
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Hollow Earth David Standish Da Capo Press, GBP 14.99
JULES Verne was not the first person to imagine journeying to the
centre of the Earth. For centuries people believed our planet to be
hollow, containing creatures and even whole civilisations hidden from
surface dwellers. What began as a serious scientific theory descended
through mystical speculation into the stuff of fantasy, so that
Standish's fascinating account spans geology, literary history and
new-age religion.
It b...
