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GREAT CAVES OF THE WORLD by Tony Waltham 2008 122 pp lavishly illustrated with many colour photos. A mini coffee table book at a very reasonable price HB DW New ?14.95
THE CAVE ART OF TOM CULVERWELL by David W Hughes 2006 xi+107 pp, many illustrations, almost one a page. Tom Culverwood is famous for his many drawings of cavers in Schoolhouse Cave. The author has gather these together and published them in this one book. An important historical record of early cave exploration. SB New ?7.00
LIVING IN DARKNESS by Stephanie Jutta Schwabe / A women?s scientific and exploratory adventures into the underwater caves of the Bahamas. 2009 184 pp, numerous black and white photos. One of the world?s top cave divers, Stephanie Schwabe is the founder and director of the Rob Palmer Blue Holes Foundation. She has also been the subject of seven cave diving films for television. Steffi does not tolerate fools gladly and has a volatile personality. Throughout the book she details her quarrels with men, usually men in authority, even her own husband. I had read extensively about the Blue Holes in the Bahamas, so the Black Holes were something new to me. The black colour is due to a layer of hydrogen sulphide lying at a depth of 18?19 m and with a temperature of 41? C. Below this layer the water is clear and very cold. The sulphide is so strong that it turn black all the bright metal buckles on the cave diving webbing. Gripping reading. SB New ?15.00
ON CALL?: A Complete Reference for Cave Rescue, edited by John C Hempel and Annette Fregeau-Conover 2001 384 pp illus. This book is a compilation of all the latest information on cave-rescue practices and techniques, based on the courses given by the National Cave Rescue Commission and experience in the field. Thirty authors have contributed forty-six chapters, and an additional sixty-two people reviewed the material. Written by experts for the heroes of the underworld. HB New ?15.00
ON CAVES AND CAMERAS. Edited by Norman R Thompson and John Van Swearington IV. 2005 336 pp, B&W photos average about one a page. When I opened this book I though I had gone back in time to the 1950?s. All the photo are in black and white. However, closer inspection showed a clutch of 68 colour photos in the middle of the book. Having gone digital for 10 years, I was a bit perplexed by the constant reference to film and processing. Digital is covered, but dismissed in 6 pages. Written by 16 authors, with a foreword by Chris Howes, this must be the ?Encyclopaedia of Cave Photography?. HB DW New ?15.00
CAVE MINERALS OF THE WORLD / second edition by Carol Hill and Paolo Forti 1997 463 pp 333 photos, many in colour. This book must be the last word in cave minerals with contributions and photos from cavers all over the world. Also included are the ten top caves which will appeal to an international audience. HB New ?30.00
VISIONS UNDERGROUND / Carlsbad Caverns through the artist?s eye by Lois Manno 2009 177 pp, many illustration. New SB ?5.00
HELOP No 9 2012 [a caving magazine from the] Speleological Club ?Ursus spelaeus?. 158 pp, many colour photos with some exciting accounts of orginial explorations: More Nge pothole]-831m; Izvod [resurgence Iz] E-Mila- 66 m, Length 21,909 m; Sistem Migovec, the longest cave in Slovenia. Imperiel College Caving Club, London have spent the last 18 years exploring this cave . L 24,900 m. SB In Croatian ?3.00
UNDERGROUND ENGLAND: Travels Beneath our Cities and Countryside, by Stephen Smith. 2009. 306 pages, bibliography, good index. For Stephen Smith, author of UNDERGROUND LONDON, beneath the dales and downs of England?s green and pleasant land there exists another country, its equal in beauty and fascination. UNDERGROUND ENGLAND is a place of wonders both natural and man-made, and Smith is the ideal companion on a thrilling tour of its subterranean places.
On his underworld odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh Marches to the Suffolk coast, Smith uncovers smugglers? tunnels and drowned cities, burial mounds and underground waterfalls. In the company of Yorkshire cavers he discovers eerie limestone cave-galleries as big as cathedrals and ends up wedged in a fissure called The Letterbox. With teams of archaeologists he finds himself in a Suffolk field full of Anglo Saxon cadavers and is almost buried alive inside Silbury Hill. Pursuing unearthly legends of church bells ringing under the seas and ghostly fiddlers playing below ground, Smith treads one of Cumbria?s Corpse Roads, explores pearl-lined Victorian grottoes and bone-strewn catacombs, contemplates the naughty past of Dashwood?s Hellfire caves at High Wycombe and disinters a frescoed chapel of the Knights? Templar beneath a bookies? in suburban Heredfordshire. SB Ex-Library Cost ?10.99 new a bargain at ?3.00
THERE IS A CAVERN IN THE TOWN / The inside story of St Clement?s Caves, Anon ND [1932?] 20 pp, photos, map and other illus. A nice historical account of these famous caves at Hastings, in the south of England. Covers worn, o/w good. SB ?2.00
THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF CAVES by Ernst Bauer 1971 129 pp, many colour photos, ave 1 a page. Prof Bauer and his wife have travelled all over the world exploring and photographing caves. The result is a superb coffee table book of high quality photos, printed on glossy paper. Has to be seen to be appreciated. A good general introduction to caves all over the world. HB ?5.00
OUTLINE OF HISTORICAL GEOLOGY by Alfred Kingsley Wells fourth edition revised with the assistance of J F Kirkaldy 1960 398 pp, 131 illustrations. Even caves and cave deposits. HB ?3.00
THE CAVES OF TOUNJ this is an A2 brochure folded into 8 x A4 pages. In English and Croatian it describes the numerous caves around and under the city of Tounj in Croatia. Includes Tounj Quarry Cave which at 8 km long is the eighth longest cave in Croatia. With large scale map. New ?1.00
MUDDY OXBOWS by Phil Hendy 1978 64 pp illus. A guide to caving techniques illustrated by cartoons. Long out of print and now a collectors? item. nb Holletts in Sedburgh are charging ?150 for this book! SB ?5.00
THE CAVES OF CO. CORK by Tony Oldham. xvi and 66 pp. March 2003 A4 reprint [this is the same as the January 2001 reprint but has 5 extra pages of new finds.]. 21 maps, surveys, front cover illus of Ovens Caves and 4 photos in text. Includes an Irish Introduction and translation of Place Names by Cian O Se. Pub. July 1981 Essential reading for any caver going to the Emerald Isle. SB out of print ? just managed to make up a copy from odd pages. One only ?10 + ?1.40 post (inland)
THE CAVE ART OF TOM CULVERWELL by David W Hughes 2006 xi+107 pp, many illustrations, almost one a page. Tom Culverwood is famous for his many drawings of cavers in Schoolhouse Cave. The author has gather these together and published them in this one book. An important historical record of early cave exploration. SB New ?7.00
LIVING IN DARKNESS by Stephanie Jutta Schwabe / A women?s scientific and exploratory adventures into the underwater caves of the Bahamas. 2009 184 pp, numerous black and white photos. One of the world?s top cave divers, Stephanie Schwabe is the founder and director of the Rob Palmer Blue Holes Foundation. She has also been the subject of seven cave diving films for television. Steffi does not tolerate fools gladly and has a volatile personality. Throughout the book she details her quarrels with men, usually men in authority, even her own husband. I had read extensively about the Blue Holes in the Bahamas, so the Black Holes were something new to me. The black colour is due to a layer of hydrogen sulphide lying at a depth of 18?19 m and with a temperature of 41? C. Below this layer the water is clear and very cold. The sulphide is so strong that it turn black all the bright metal buckles on the cave diving webbing. Gripping reading. SB New ?15.00
ON CALL?: A Complete Reference for Cave Rescue, edited by John C Hempel and Annette Fregeau-Conover 2001 384 pp illus. This book is a compilation of all the latest information on cave-rescue practices and techniques, based on the courses given by the National Cave Rescue Commission and experience in the field. Thirty authors have contributed forty-six chapters, and an additional sixty-two people reviewed the material. Written by experts for the heroes of the underworld. HB New ?15.00
ON CAVES AND CAMERAS. Edited by Norman R Thompson and John Van Swearington IV. 2005 336 pp, B&W photos average about one a page. When I opened this book I though I had gone back in time to the 1950?s. All the photo are in black and white. However, closer inspection showed a clutch of 68 colour photos in the middle of the book. Having gone digital for 10 years, I was a bit perplexed by the constant reference to film and processing. Digital is covered, but dismissed in 6 pages. Written by 16 authors, with a foreword by Chris Howes, this must be the ?Encyclopaedia of Cave Photography?. HB DW New ?15.00
CAVE MINERALS OF THE WORLD / second edition by Carol Hill and Paolo Forti 1997 463 pp 333 photos, many in colour. This book must be the last word in cave minerals with contributions and photos from cavers all over the world. Also included are the ten top caves which will appeal to an international audience. HB New ?30.00
VISIONS UNDERGROUND / Carlsbad Caverns through the artist?s eye by Lois Manno 2009 177 pp, many illustration. New SB ?5.00
HELOP No 9 2012 [a caving magazine from the] Speleological Club ?Ursus spelaeus?. 158 pp, many colour photos with some exciting accounts of orginial explorations: More Nge pothole]-831m; Izvod [resurgence Iz] E-Mila- 66 m, Length 21,909 m; Sistem Migovec, the longest cave in Slovenia. Imperiel College Caving Club, London have spent the last 18 years exploring this cave . L 24,900 m. SB In Croatian ?3.00
UNDERGROUND ENGLAND: Travels Beneath our Cities and Countryside, by Stephen Smith. 2009. 306 pages, bibliography, good index. For Stephen Smith, author of UNDERGROUND LONDON, beneath the dales and downs of England?s green and pleasant land there exists another country, its equal in beauty and fascination. UNDERGROUND ENGLAND is a place of wonders both natural and man-made, and Smith is the ideal companion on a thrilling tour of its subterranean places.
On his underworld odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh Marches to the Suffolk coast, Smith uncovers smugglers? tunnels and drowned cities, burial mounds and underground waterfalls. In the company of Yorkshire cavers he discovers eerie limestone cave-galleries as big as cathedrals and ends up wedged in a fissure called The Letterbox. With teams of archaeologists he finds himself in a Suffolk field full of Anglo Saxon cadavers and is almost buried alive inside Silbury Hill. Pursuing unearthly legends of church bells ringing under the seas and ghostly fiddlers playing below ground, Smith treads one of Cumbria?s Corpse Roads, explores pearl-lined Victorian grottoes and bone-strewn catacombs, contemplates the naughty past of Dashwood?s Hellfire caves at High Wycombe and disinters a frescoed chapel of the Knights? Templar beneath a bookies? in suburban Heredfordshire. SB Ex-Library Cost ?10.99 new a bargain at ?3.00
THERE IS A CAVERN IN THE TOWN / The inside story of St Clement?s Caves, Anon ND [1932?] 20 pp, photos, map and other illus. A nice historical account of these famous caves at Hastings, in the south of England. Covers worn, o/w good. SB ?2.00
THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF CAVES by Ernst Bauer 1971 129 pp, many colour photos, ave 1 a page. Prof Bauer and his wife have travelled all over the world exploring and photographing caves. The result is a superb coffee table book of high quality photos, printed on glossy paper. Has to be seen to be appreciated. A good general introduction to caves all over the world. HB ?5.00
OUTLINE OF HISTORICAL GEOLOGY by Alfred Kingsley Wells fourth edition revised with the assistance of J F Kirkaldy 1960 398 pp, 131 illustrations. Even caves and cave deposits. HB ?3.00
THE CAVES OF TOUNJ this is an A2 brochure folded into 8 x A4 pages. In English and Croatian it describes the numerous caves around and under the city of Tounj in Croatia. Includes Tounj Quarry Cave which at 8 km long is the eighth longest cave in Croatia. With large scale map. New ?1.00
MUDDY OXBOWS by Phil Hendy 1978 64 pp illus. A guide to caving techniques illustrated by cartoons. Long out of print and now a collectors? item. nb Holletts in Sedburgh are charging ?150 for this book! SB ?5.00
THE CAVES OF CO. CORK by Tony Oldham. xvi and 66 pp. March 2003 A4 reprint [this is the same as the January 2001 reprint but has 5 extra pages of new finds.]. 21 maps, surveys, front cover illus of Ovens Caves and 4 photos in text. Includes an Irish Introduction and translation of Place Names by Cian O Se. Pub. July 1981 Essential reading for any caver going to the Emerald Isle. SB out of print ? just managed to make up a copy from odd pages. One only ?10 + ?1.40 post (inland)
Thank goodness we still have peeps like JNC and MF still with us and still doing great work. 
