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Author : Paul Courbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Atlas of the Great Caves of the World written by Paul Courbon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Roberson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years Under the Sinkhole Plain written by Gary Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefanie Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692926789
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book A Year in the National Parks written by Stefanie Payne and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
Author : Dana Cudmore
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585672462
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Remarkable Howe Caverns Story written by Dana Cudmore and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1842, in the foothills of the Catskills, eccentric farmer Lester Howe and a neighbor began conducting lengthy and primitive explorations below ground at Howe's Scoharie Country farm. Each time the two returned, mud-covered, to the surface, they spoke of a cavern system that amazed them with its extent and complexity. Local Native Americans had known of the cave long before-they called it "Otsgaragee," the Cave of the Great Galleries-but Howe's chance rediscovery was the first chapter in the dramatic tale of one of America's oldest and greatest commercial caves. Just as dramatic as the caverns' features-walls of colored floorstone, gigantic columns of stalactites and stalagmites, murderously tight squeezes and vast open galleries-is the story of their evolution from natural wonder to tourist attraction. Noted natural historian Dana Cudmore examines this spectacular natural phenomenon, which is greeted by nearly a quarter of a million visitors each year. Packed with fascinating historical photographs, The Remarkable Howe Caverns Storyis a remarkable and compelling account of man's interaction with nature. "An interesting local history that should intrigue spelunkers and expand awareness of a site already well known to visitors of New York State's Leatherstocking region." ( Booklist) "Spelunkers and local history buffs will relish this engaging account." ( Publishers Weekly)
Author : James Derby
Publisher : AAPG
ISBN 13 : 0891813802
Total Pages : 1229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Great American Carbonate Bank written by James Derby and published by AAPG. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 1229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover plus DVD
Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1400013720
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great American Drives of the West written by Fodor's and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fodor's Great American Drives of the West is the outstanding drivers manual for the most spectacular states of the USA. Fodor's correspondants have created an easy to read and well lain out touring guide to each of the western states. Whether touring through the Redwoods of Humbolt County or slamming on the breaks at Arizona's Grand Canyon, Fodor's won't let you down. Great American Drives of the West is the most comprehensive and well researched motoring guide that covers not only the roads but the pit-stops and the pitfalls of motoring through America's western states. Fodor's offers everything a driver could need for a unforgettable driving holiday, all in a handy glove-box format.
Author : Michael Ray Taylor
Publisher : National Geographic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Caves written by Michael Ray Taylor and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader on a tour of different types of caves, including Greenland, the Yucatan Peninsula, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the American Southwest, and explains the creatures that live there and the techniques explorers use.
Author : Larry E. Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879961272
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Caves of Chattanooga written by Larry E. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Stone
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446561273
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Deep written by William Stone and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant. With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San Augustin. The first camp settled 2,328 feet below ground in a cavern where headlamps couldn't even illuminate the walls and ceiling. The second camp teetered precariously above an underground canyon where two subterranean rivers collided. But beyond that lay the unknown territory -- a flooded corridor that had blocked all previous comers, claimed a diver's life, and drove the rest of the team back. Except for William Stone and Barbara am Ende, who forged on for 18 more days, with no hope of rescue, to set the record for the deepest cave dive in the Western Hemisphere.
Author : Blaine W. Schubert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253342683
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America written by Blaine W. Schubert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the findings of a number of studies on North American cave paleontology. Although not intended to be all-inclusive, Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America contains contributions that range from overviews of the significance of cave fossils to reports about new localities and studies of specific vertebrate groups. These essays describe how cave remains record the evolutionary patterns of organisms and their biogeography, how they can help reconstruct past ecosystems and climatic fluctuations, how they provide an important record of the evolution of modern ecosystems, and even how some of these caves contain traces of human activity. The book's eclectic nature should appeal to students, professional and amateur paleontologists, biologists, geologists, speleologists, and cavers. The contributors are Ticul Alvarez, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Christopher J. Bell, Larry L. Coats, Jennifer Glennon, Wulf Gose, Frederick Grady, Russell Wm. Graham, Timothy H. Heaton, Carmen J. Jans-Langel, Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr., H. Gregory McDonald, Jim I. Mead, Oscar J. Polaco, Blaine W. Schubert, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and Alisa J. Winkler.
Author : Hubert Rother
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781891442278
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Lost Caves of St. Louis written by Hubert Rother and published by Virginia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Tabor
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812979494
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Blind Descent written by James M. Tabor and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. Tabor takes us on an odyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the hearts of rare explorers who will do anything to get there first.”—Robert Kurson, author of ShadowDivers In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. American Bill Stone took on the vast, deadly Cheve Cave in southern Mexico. Ukrainian Alexander Klimchouk targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the war-torn former Soviet republic of Georgia. Both men spent months almost two vertical miles deep, contending with thousand-foot drops, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and the psychological horrors produced by weeks in absolute darkness, beyond all hope of rescue. Based on his unprecedented access to logs and journals as well as hours of personal interviews, James Tabor has crafted a thrilling exploration of man’s timeless urge to discover—and of two extraordinary men whose pursuit of greatness led them to the heights of triumph and the depths of tragedy. Blind Descent is an unforgettable addition to the classic literature of true-life adventure, and a testament to human survival and endurance. “Holds the reader to his seat, containing dangers aplenty with deadly falls, killer microbes, sudden burial, asphyxiation, claustrophobia, anxiety, and hallucinations far underneath the ground in a lightless world. Using a pulse-pounding narrative, this is tense real-life adventure pitting two master cavers mirroring the cold war with very uncommonly high stakes.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A fascinating and informative introduction to the sport of cave diving, as well as a dramatic portrayal of a significant man-vs.-nature conflict. . . . What counts is Tabor’s knack for maximizing dramatic potential, while also managing to be informative and attentive to the major personalities associated with the most important cave explorations of the last two decades.”—Kirkus Reviews Includes a 16-pg black and white insert
Author : Frank Richard Prassel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128429
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)
Download or read book The Great American Outlaw written by Frank Richard Prassel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."
Author : David Lee Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563979156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Caves written by David Lee Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic examination of how caves are formed.
Author : Michael Ray Taylor
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cave Passages written by Michael Ray Taylor and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor (journalism, Henderson State U.) takes us spelunking around the world in flooded and dry caves and, something the caving books of past decades missed, in China. Good writing, high (low?) adventure. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kevin Joseph Patrick
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811726320
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders written by Kevin Joseph Patrick and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide with roadside history of Pennsylvania's nice commercial caves and other geological wonders.
Author : Jon Manchip White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003833802
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Great American Desert written by Jon Manchip White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1977, The Great American Desert presents a comprehensive overview of the life, history, and landscape of the American Southwest. The Great American desert encompasses the finest land, the biggest Canyon, the highest mountains, the driest deserts, the hottest valley, the oldest towns and the richest mines in the country. Its history is ancient and varied- the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, the Pueblo life, the Spanish and their influence, the Indians and the very type of Southwesterners who have taken up residence during the past century. Jon Manchip White, a Welshman, is one of the region's most recent residents. He has lived there for seven years, look stranger and grown to appreciate it with loving familiarity. He has seen beyond the subtle malignancies of civilization-the billboards, fast food places, tourist traps and the average American’s curious horror of the big outdoors. Indeed, he finds in this finely integrated account of the history and topography of a huge area of land signs that at times nature is winning the fight against man. This book ranges far beyond scenic wonders. The author is equally concerned with men who moved across this spectacular landscape, and who inhabit it now; men famous for a strange diversity of achievement-Coronado and D. H. Lawrence, Geronimo and Billy the Kid, as well as the migrants and desert dwellers of today. This fascinating book is a must read for anyone interested in America’s Southwest.
