Diane Swanson, author of over 55 non-fiction titles including Nibbling on Einstein's Brain, digs up a fascinating history of tunnels. Tunnels have been used to mine ores, channel water, hide slaves, escape prisons, rob banks, rescue hostages and spy on embassies. Tunnels! (Annick $18.95), first in the True Stories from the Edge series, reveals underground passages have also been home to the dead, the poor, and the overheated (residents of Coober Pedy escape 45-degree Celcius summers in Australian "dugouts";). Next in the series is Escapes! 1-55037-781-7

[BCBW Winter 2003]