Pitlamp
Well-known member
Could I just draw fellow forum members' attention to this new book, which will be published shortly?
It's over seven years since Dave Haigh and I produced Adventures Underground and the book is long sold out. Lots of folk have asked where they might still be able to get a copy and we did talk about having a reprint. But so much more new stuff's been found that a completely fresh edition seemed to make more sense. Now, after a lot of hard work, this latest project is about to bear fruit.
All of the chapters are revuise / updated, with a load of extra new material woven in. We wrote three brand new chapters, with extra photographs and surveys (at least one of which hasn't been published elsewhere) so there's a lot more pages. The official date of publication will be the weekend of the Hidden Earth conference next month but it's available for pre-order now and, if the printers get it to Chris and Judith at Wild Places Publishing early, it'll be posted out before the conference to those who have placed early orders.
It gives me pleasure to confirm that, as with the first edition, all authors' foyalties are being donated to a couple of charities. Once again we'll be supporting cave rescue (obviously!) but the other charity which this second edition will benefit is Settle Community Swimming Pool. The latter is an excellent facitilty, in the heart of the Dales caving area which the new book is all about. But it's been struggling a bit lately as the roof blew off in Storm Arwen, bringing a massive repair bill. The pool trustees are still playing financial catch up so we decided to help, mainly because all the area's young children learn to swim there, so if they ever fall into water accidentally they stand a fighting chance of avoiding drowning. (It's because two charities will be receiving the royalties that I thought flagging up the new book on this forum is justified, so my conscience is reasonably clear! Besides, so many forum members have helped with the production of this 2nd edition, in so many ways, it's not just "our" project anyway.)
The most recent Descent 299 has a teaser on page 10 but more details about the new book (and ordering info) are now available in the link below.
Of course, all of our friends who have contributed in various ways appear in the acknowledgements but I'd really like to take the opportunity to offer my personal thanks here. "We couldn't have done it without you" is often casually quoted but in this case it's absolutely true. The input that's been freely given along the way has been quite incredible and you're all helping to support two very worthy causes.
wildplaces.co.uk
It's over seven years since Dave Haigh and I produced Adventures Underground and the book is long sold out. Lots of folk have asked where they might still be able to get a copy and we did talk about having a reprint. But so much more new stuff's been found that a completely fresh edition seemed to make more sense. Now, after a lot of hard work, this latest project is about to bear fruit.
All of the chapters are revuise / updated, with a load of extra new material woven in. We wrote three brand new chapters, with extra photographs and surveys (at least one of which hasn't been published elsewhere) so there's a lot more pages. The official date of publication will be the weekend of the Hidden Earth conference next month but it's available for pre-order now and, if the printers get it to Chris and Judith at Wild Places Publishing early, it'll be posted out before the conference to those who have placed early orders.
It gives me pleasure to confirm that, as with the first edition, all authors' foyalties are being donated to a couple of charities. Once again we'll be supporting cave rescue (obviously!) but the other charity which this second edition will benefit is Settle Community Swimming Pool. The latter is an excellent facitilty, in the heart of the Dales caving area which the new book is all about. But it's been struggling a bit lately as the roof blew off in Storm Arwen, bringing a massive repair bill. The pool trustees are still playing financial catch up so we decided to help, mainly because all the area's young children learn to swim there, so if they ever fall into water accidentally they stand a fighting chance of avoiding drowning. (It's because two charities will be receiving the royalties that I thought flagging up the new book on this forum is justified, so my conscience is reasonably clear! Besides, so many forum members have helped with the production of this 2nd edition, in so many ways, it's not just "our" project anyway.)
The most recent Descent 299 has a teaser on page 10 but more details about the new book (and ordering info) are now available in the link below.
Of course, all of our friends who have contributed in various ways appear in the acknowledgements but I'd really like to take the opportunity to offer my personal thanks here. "We couldn't have done it without you" is often casually quoted but in this case it's absolutely true. The input that's been freely given along the way has been quite incredible and you're all helping to support two very worthy causes.
Adventures Underground
Adventures Underground. Tales of cave exploration in the Yorkshire Dales second edition
wildplaces.co.uk
