I recently finished Hidden Cities by Moses Gates and now I am filled with wanderlust. I want to throw open heavy manholes and plunk myself into dank sewers and I want to fling caution to the breeze while climbing hand over fist above the city along thin walkways and places not intended for walking.
Gates presents a world most of us never see even though it is just beyond our myopic vision. The huge majority of us would never ignore signs telling us "Do Not Enter." We would much rather be thought boring than to have a misdemeanor trespassing notation on our permanent record.
This is a book which will grab your sensibility and implore it to act with spontaneity. It will overload you with the underworld. You will also never walk across a bridge or into a subway station or stroll past a manhole cover without wondering, "What if...."
You may have heard of urban exploring before; you may have even considered partaking in a few urban explorations. Let Moses Gates take you on a few of his adventures with him on these pages. You can live vicariously through the adventures of a master at his craft.
Or maybe, just maybe, you will decide to undertake a few adventures of your own.
--Book Dude
Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World's Great Metropolises
by Moses Gates
Tarcher / Penguin
Trade paperback
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