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The Family Guide to Outdoor Adventures

Explore and experience nature with your kids with these 30 fun and educational family activities dedicated to spending more time outside.

Karst and Caves of Switzerland

Images of America - The Floyd Collins Tragedy at Sand Cave

Floyd Collins is perhaps the most famous person you've never heard of, but this young man's tragic death made him celebrated as "the Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known." Collins was a Kentucky cave explorer in the early part of the 20th century, characterized by his lack of fear when exploring the most difficult cave passages, …

Beneath the Surface

Caves are exciting places to visit, whether you are a tourist, a sporting caver or a scientist in one of the many disciplines which use caves as natural laboratories. This book comprehensively reviews what we presently know about Australia's caves including the varieties of cave types and how they form, cave fauna, fossils, Aboriginal relics …

Sixty Years of Caves and Caving

What is caving? Caving is fun. Caving is in the darkness. Caving is illuminating. Caving is dangerous. Caving is a minority sport for idiots. Caving is a muddy pastime. Caving warms you up. Caving gives you hypothermia. Caving is for everyone. Caving is exploration. Caving refreshes the soul. Caving is a way of life.

Hidden Nature

Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. …

Beyond the Deep

Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world's deepest caves. 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 …

Luolatarinoita

Kun ryömii luolaan, mönkii samalla omaan sielunmaisemaansa. Se, millaiseksi kokemus muodostuu, riippuu siitä, mitä etsii ja kaipaa - tietämättään tai tiedostaen. Kirjailija meni luolaan luotaamaan niihin liittyvien tarinoiden avulla ihmiselon historiaa ja pohtimaan luonnon ja ihmisen välistä suhdetta. Ahtaan paikan kammosta kärsivä Harri-Pekka Pietikäinen päättää ryömiä luolaan. Alkuun ajatus kauhistuttaa, mutta pelon tietoinen kohtaaminen häivyttää …

Underground Wales

Here is a celebration of the mysterious and beautiful world which is to be found below the country that is Wales. From the magnificent natural caves of south Wales such as Dan yr Ogof in the Swansea valley to the spectacular and extensive mines scattered throughout the country, this insight into the underground realm will …