Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 21 -- Boys Club Singles
Raven's Gate (2005) by Anthony Horowitz includes the standard
escape-via-underground-river sequence when Matt and Marsh flee
Omega One by jumping into such a river under the building.
More interestingly in a later discussion regarding a nuclear reactor,
an underground river use we'd not realized.
Richard Cole: Why did you build it in the middle of a wood?
Sir Michael Marsh: Well, it had to be somewhere out of the way.
And there's an underground river that runs
through the wood. That was the main reason.
A nuclear power station requires a constant
supply of water, you see.
In Leepike Ridge (2007) by Nathan Wilson, 11-year-old Tom is
dragged deep underground by a swift river, finds himself trapped in a
world of labyrinthine tunnels, freezing subterranean rapids and
relentless darkness. He pulls himself onto an island, but as there is
no food, he's compelled to try his luck in the river again. He ends up
in the net of someone trapped for years inside the mountain.
In The Secret of the Tarascan Ruins (2007), one of the bilingual Palo
Alto Adventures by Beverly Blount de Pérez Palma, Carlos
discovers the secret of the underground river by venturing into a
waterfall tunnel.
The secret-territory-behind-the waterfall device is somewhat common
in adventure fiction, e.g. the Ithilien Rangers' hideout behind such a
waterfall in the 2002 movie adaption of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings,
The Two Towers.
The Odyssey (2007) by Elena Dorothy Bowman has little in common with Homer's original.
From the first chapter,
When the dam above the town was built, it changed the course of a river flowing underground,
and up to now had never been a problem. People knew it was there and had once inundated
their neighborhood, but most days never gave it a thought. Now, however, once the dam was
breached the huge flood of raging water rushing through the town was instrumental in rerouted
[sic] the underground river back to its original course and in so doing was responsible for the
creation of a large sinkhole to emerge in the back lot of the land belonging to the Knights.
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