Chile " Known for its sea bass and known for its copper mines. In 2010, the world was riveted to news reports about 33 Chilean minors who had been trapped in a copper mine in the desert. The most amazing part is they all survived. How they survived and how they were rescued is what "Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 feet Below the Chilean Desert" is about and more. In just 111 pages, complete with diagrams, you get great information about how the earth's tectonic plates are in constant motion, mining in Chile as well as mining in general. This is a great book about a heart-wrenching time for the world as it waited and worked fervently to save 33 strangers from what seemed like imminent death. At 21 days into the situation, Here is a video by PBS News hour on the day the pulled the first man out of the mine.