Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms - Hardcover

Michael Ray Taylor; Ronal C. Kerbo

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9780792279044: Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0792279042 ISBN 13: 9780792279044
Publisher: National Geographic, 2001

Synopsis

A companion volume to the new IMAX film offers a sumptuously illustrated, close-up look at the world's great cave environments, capturing the wonders and perils of caving and describing the unique characteristics of these underground habitats. 25,000 first printing.

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This visually rich work was produced in conjunction with a National Geographic IMAX project filming spelunkers exploring caves throughout the world. The film follows two female cavers in subterranean sites in Greenland, the Yucatan, and the south-central U.S. The photographs and the story of the explorations would be sufficient to recommend this work, but it also includes fascinating background material on the history of the caves, their biological diversity, the tools used by spelunkers in their explorations, and the geologic forces that have made caves into natural works of art. The sites for this work were obviously, and successfully, chosen because of their visual impact and variety: a giant glacial ice cavern, vast networks of underground rivers, and cramped passageways of dripping delicate crystals. Perhaps the most astounding feature that the book highlights is not the geology but the amazing range of life-forms that prosper in impossibly harsh conditions. Eric Robbins
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Publisher
National Geographic
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0792279042
ISBN 13 
9780792279044
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224
Rating
  • 3.92 out of 5 stars
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