📚 Tunnels

Hollows under difficulty: canal and rail bores, the shield inventions, and the crossing projects still proposed.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject tunnels in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The tunnels of Cu Chi	Tom Mangold	1985	14
	Introduction to Tunnel Construction	David N. Chapman	2010	9
	Immersed Tunnels	Richard Lunniss	2013	8
	Railway Tunnelling in Heavy Ground	Charles F. Gripper	1879	7
	A general report upon the initiation and construction of the tunnel under the East river, New York, to the president and directors of the East river gas company	Charles M Jacobs	1894	7
	The eighth wonder	Carl C. Gray	1927	7
	The mole people	Jennifer Toth	1993	7
	Transportation tunnels	S. Ponnuswamy	1996	7
	Tunnelling	Alan Muir Wood	2000	7
	Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren Im Tunnelbau	Gerhard Girmscheid	2008	6
	Facts and figures concerning the Hoosac tunnel	John J. Piper	1866	5
	Engineering the Channel Tunnel	Colin Kirkland	1995	5
	Dynamical tunneling	Srihari Keshavamurthy	2011	5
	Introduction to Tunnel Construction, Second Edition	David N. Chapman	2017	5
	Soft Ground Tunnel Design	Benoit Jones	2021	5
	Closing argument of Adolph Sutro, on the bill before Congress to aid the Sutro Tunnel	Adolph Sutro	1872	4
	The Severn tunnel	Thomas Andrew Walker	1888	4
	Tunnels under London	Nigel Pennick	1980	4
	Channel Tunnel Story	Anderson, G.	1994	4
	Tunnelling contracts and site investigation	P. B. Attewell	1994	4
	Tunnels (Building Amazing Structures)	Chris Oxlade	2000	4
	Tunnels	Joanne Mattern	2015	4
	Tunnels	Virginia Loh-Hagan	2017	4
	Awesome Engineering Tunnels	Sally Spray	2018	4
	An explanation of the works of the tunnel under the Thames	Thames Tunnel Company.	1836	3
	Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills	Henry S. Drinker	1878	3
	A history of tunnels	Patrick Beaver	1972	3
	The making of the Channel Tunnel	Ty Byrd	1994	3
	Underground bases and tunnels	Richard Sauder, PhD	1995	3
	Immersed Tunnel Techniques 2	C. R. Ford	1997	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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