What lurks beneath the surface? In the bowels of a Sydney pub, the publican poses with hishand in chains: a reminder of the time when the underground store was a convictcell. A family, thrown out of home during the Great Depression, set up house ina cave. Women sort mushrooms in a disused railway tunnel in 1950s; a jazz bandrehearses beneath the Royal George Hotel. As people go about their busy lives, beneaththeir feet members of the Cave Clan clamber through shadowy stormwater tunnels.Written by historian Michael McKernan, Underground Australia is illustratedwith photographs from the National Library of Australia. With images by some ofthe country's best-known photographers, including Jeff Carter, Wolfgang Sieversand Frank Hurley, this book will take you on a journey to an amazingunderground world.