Author: Emil Silvestru
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780890514962
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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DISCOVER JUST HOW LONG IT REALLY TAKES FOR A CAVE TO FORM

Author: Ralph Crane
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234600
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-filled passages; from the karst topography of Guilin in China to the lava tubes of Hawaii; from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive tourism enterprises, caves are places of mystery. Dark spaces that remain largely unexplored, caves are astonishing wonders of nature and habitats for exotic flora and fauna. This book investigates the natural and cultural history of caves and considers the roles caves have played in the human imagination and experience of the natural world. It explores the long history of the human fascination with caves, across countries and continents, examining their dual role as spaces of both wonder and fear. It tells the tales of the adventurers who pioneered the science of caves and those of the explorers and cave-divers still searching for new, unmapped routes deep into the earth. This book explores the lure of the subterranean world by examining caving and cave tourism and by looking to the mythology, literature, and art of caves. This lavishly illustrated book will appeal to general readers and experts alike interested in the ecology and use of caves, or the extraordinary artistic responses earth’s dark recesses have evoked over the centuries.

Author: Nick Cave
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838852255
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke. Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit. The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. The images were selected from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in June 2020.

Author: Michela Montgomery
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1618689185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Six Stanford students journey into one of the deepest and longest caves in North America. A day into their journey, a nuclear war begins from within the U.S. Unable to return to the surface, and unsure what they will find when they do, the Cave will test the strength and survival of each person differently - transforming six individuals into a team, and ultimately...a family.

Author: James M. Tabor
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812979494
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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“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: Jean Clottes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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An underwater cave containing Paleolithic paintings and engravings of animals, complex geomatric signs, stenciled human hands and innumerable finger tracing.

Author: Steiner
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 9780671747855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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In pursuit of a reward for the discovery of an Indian burial site, Marc and two friends get lost in a cave inhabited by a ghost.

Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140367324
Category : Buried treasure
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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With the help of an old diary with clues to hidden gold, Ty determines to find a way to save his hometown from becoming a ghost town.

Author: Rob Hodgson
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 1786033860
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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This laugh out loud picture book tells the story of a hungry wolf who is determined to get the little creature who lives in the cave to come out and 'play'. There is a cave. A cave that is home to a creature. A creature that never leaves its cave… Because of a wolf. The wolf tries everything to get the creature to leave the cave, to no avail. But what will happen when he's finally successful? This is a hilarious story with a BIG surprise that's perfect for entertaining young children. Beautiful and characterful artwork by Rob Hodgson brings the story to life, and young readers will love to read this story time and time again. Selected for the Booktrust Time to Read Campaign 2019. Don't miss Rob Hodgson's other hilarious picture books: The Woods and My Best Friend.

Author: David Jagnow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680440119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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