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Book review: Hollow Earth: Hole lot of trouble when the world's turned inside out
From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20060903
Author:ANDREW CRUMEY
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 began with Edmond Halley, famous for his comet, who attempted to explain variations in Earth's magnetic field by ...
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