Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves & catacombs, subway systems, & long abandoned, ghostly mines: all varieties of holes in the ground. He’s tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation: each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see & touch the underworld in ways others could not. Underground is a place of overlapping, often contradictory associations: it is a space that evokes death & burial even as it is a place of origins; it fills us with primordial dread, even as we seek refuge there in times of strife; we dig in search of riches & we bury our most toxic waste.