Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

"How far into the mountain does the river go?"
Chapter 21 -- Boys Club Singles
"Nobody knows," said Bribbens. "Leagues, maybe weeks worth.
Maybe only a few hours."
"Where does it end, do you suppose? In an underground lake?"
"Helldrink," said the boatman.
"And what's Helldrink, Senor Ranac?"
"A rumor. A story. An amalgam of all the rears of every creature
that navigated the waters in times of trouble, during bad storms or
in leaking ships, in four harbor or under the lash of a drunken
captain. I've spent my life on me water and in it. It would be worth
the trip to me if we should find it, even if it would mean my death.
It's where all true sailors should end up."
It was odd, Jon-Tom mused as they drifted onward, to be moving downstream and yet towards
mountains. Rivers ran out of hills
In J.G. Ballard's The Day of Creation (1987), a stretch of African
desert is transformed by an underground river accidentally brought to
the surface by a mentally-deteriorating English physician. The
doctor, who identifies himself with the river, embarks on a stolen
ferry, journeying towards its source in a voyage that echoes Joseph
Conrad and Herman Melville.
Well, okay, perhaps it doesn't echo Conrad and Melville, but would
like to.
From Graham Marks' Subterranean Sea -- Stingray
(1992),
What mysteries lie beneath the earth's crust? A team of
scientists call upon Stingray's crew to investigate.
Trapped in the unchartered waters of a vast
subterranean sea, Troy Tempest must find an escape
route before their oxygen runs out.
Indiana Jones and the Unicorn’s Legacy (1992) by Rob MacGregor employs the dive-into-theunderground-river
escape familiar to Boys clubs, but it's not Indy's who gets away. As a graduate
student in France, Junes goes on a dig and discovers a flooded cave containing Ice Age
paintings and clay animals. The nefarious Roland Walcott tries to steal the glory, but disappears
into an underground river during a struggle and is presumed dead. He isn't.
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