need a book recommendation

[Bill Putnam]

Wendy,

If you liked "Ten Years Under The Earth" you will love "Subterranean Climbers." Those guys free-dove through sumps with candles and matches tucked under their swim caps - and they didn't even wear their underwear! Cavers of the modern era simply pale by comparison.

Bill

[wendy]

Wendy,

If you liked "Ten Years Under The Earth" you will love "Subterranean Climbers." Those guys free-dove through sumps with candles and matches tucked under their swim caps - and they didn't even wear their underwear! Cavers of the modern era simply pale by comparison.

Bill

Thanks Bill, I just ordered it. I'll read it next.

[graveleye]

here is my .02 electrons...

Free book on the Big Bone Cave area - all you have to do is be an NSS member, and give them $5 for shipping. If you don't believe me, see the ad in the last two issues of the NSS News. I almost missed it myself. It's not fiction, but it's all cave related.

[Lost]

I just finished The Taming of the Slough awsome stuff


Sheck Exley's story of the exploration of Peacock Springs. Edited by Sandra Poucher with additional chapters by Tom Morris, Jerry Murphy, and Mike Poucher. Photography by Steve Auer, Bob Janowski, Jill Heinreth, and Wes Skiles.

https://secure.nsscds.org/store/product ... 3473cb9538

[wendy]

I just finished The Taming of the Slough awsome stuff


Sheck Exley's story of the exploration of Peacock Springs. Edited by Sandra Poucher with additional chapters by Tom Morris, Jerry Murphy, and Mike Poucher. Photography by Steve Auer, Bob Janowski, Jill Heinreth, and Wes Skiles.

https://secure.nsscds.org/store/product ... 3473cb9538

Ya i read that one too, good book. I liked that one since I had dived peacock.

[shibumi]

Wendy,

Cavers of the modern era simply pale by comparison.

Bill

That's because we spend more time underground and are more aware of the hazards of
tanning...

ObBookRecommendation:
It's rather dated, but "Ecotopia" and "Ecotopia Emerging" By Ernest Callenbeck(sp? my copies burned up in the fire).
Both are fiction. The first, while written in the 70s, is rather interesting due to some of the things he writes about how society is changing and some of the things we are now doing in response to dwindling resources and environmental change.
Of course, in typical 70's fiction writers fashion he's wildly off about other things :) Both are fun reads, and may make you think about your own assumptions.

[Teresa]

ObBookRecommendation:
It's rather dated, but "Ecotopia" and "Ecotopia Emerging" By Ernest Callenbeck(sp? my copies burned up in the fire).
Both are fiction.

I read Ecotopia, (which somewhat explains the ex-hippie mindset of parts of Oregon and Washington State) but even better is Callenbach's non-fiction "Living Cheaply with Style". He's revised it several times since, but the first edition was an assigned text in my first college Comp II class. Talk about tips for the art of the scrounge. The copy I had was made of recycled paper, back when recycled paper was extra funky.

BTW, if you google Ernest Callenbach, you'll find his website.

[Dwight Livingston]

Sir Edmund Hillary's death reminds me that his book HIgh Adventure is a very good read. The book covers his time mountaineering in the Himalayas prior to and including the Everest climb. I enjoyed his writing style, rather understated and lean while creating vivid pictures of the mountains.

[Squirrel Girl]

Sir Edmund Hillary's death reminds me that his book HIgh Adventure is a very good read. The book covers his time mountaineering in the Himalayas prior to and including the Everest climb. I enjoyed his writing style, rather understated and lean while creating vivid pictures of the mountains.

Yeah, you know when I was a young adolescent, I read HIllary's books, climbing K2, and I'm sure it helped mold me into the outdoors person I am now. It wouldn't hurt to give these as gifts to youngsters on general principles.

[Lost]

I just finished The Taming of the Slough awsome stuff


Sheck Exley's story of the exploration of Peacock Springs. Edited by Sandra Poucher with additional chapters by Tom Morris, Jerry Murphy, and Mike Poucher. Photography by Steve Auer, Bob Janowski, Jill Heinreth, and Wes Skiles.

https://secure.nsscds.org/store/product ... 3473cb9538

Ya i read that one too, good book. I liked that one since I had dived peacock.

I am reading the darkness beckons now. It is the history of cave diving from the British point of view real good read.

[daj]

So far it seems like all the recomendations have been for books from more recent times. Here is a link to the Kentuckiana Digital Library where you can read cave books by Horace Hovey, William Stump Forwood, Adam Binkerd, Charles Wright, John Thompson, Robert Davidson and more. All are from the 1800s to early 1900s.
http://tinyurl.com/35kmnq

[wyandottecaver]

DAJ thanks for the link! As a cave book collector I have some of these as originals, but being able to read them online without putting wear on the volume is awesome.

[wendy]

Well I finished reading "Miracle in the Andes" I liked it. Now I need to go rent that movie Alive.

Starting "Subterranean Climbers" tonight. Thanks to Speleobooks for shipping it so quickly.

(well I started reading 'subterranean Climbers' so far i really like it, it reads like one giant cave trip report. Even kinda humorous.)

[baa43003]

I recently finished Cudjo's Cave, which was really good. Great characters and action packed. It may be a little hard to come by though. For everyone who liked Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker, you will probably also like his book The Scout. Another gem of a book is Beast in the Garden, about mountain lions in Boulder, CO. And my final recommendation: The Jewel Cave Adventure by Herb and Jan Conn. No cave library is complete without it.

[kasi]

For fiction, I really enjoyed Labyrinth by Mark T. Sullivan. It's got kind of a sci-fi start to it, but it gets into the caving pretty soon. I'm actually reading it for the second time. Other than that, I'll second The Longest Cave, The Caves Beyond, and Beyond Mammoth Cave. I've got a copy of The Last Illusion coming by Don Dunham. Can't wait to read it!