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Penguin

Experience the extraordinary adventure of the La Venta association as you read Into the Heart of the World: 25 Years of Exploration, a Penguin book edited by Antonio De Vivo and Francesco Sauro. This engaging volume covers the team's main geographical/speleological and environmental exploration expeditions over two and a half decades. It features 300 color photographs and numerous travel logs from these visits to our planet's most remote and hard-to-reach places. Witness the Tepui in Venezuela, Rio La Venta and Cuatro Ci negas in Mexico, the Puerto Princesa Underground River in the Philippines, the Samarkand caves in Uzbekistan, the Gorner Glacier in Switzerland, the Arctic caves, Antarctica, and Argentinean Patagonia.About the Editors Antonio De Vivo is an expert speleologist (one who studies caves and other similar features) who has pursued a life of adventure, making startling discoveries about a pre-Colombian civilization. Francesco Sauro is a geologist and explorer who teaches at the University of Bologna in Italy. Both men are Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureates. They reside in Italy.