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Hidden nature : wild southern caves / Michael Ray Taylor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]Description: 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780826501028
  • 0826501028
Subject(s):
Contents:
Near Spencer -- Florida-Georgia line -- Bat season -- Finding caves -- Secret squirrel and the deep biosphere -- in Xanadu -- Graffiti -- The bridge -- The source -- On Tarball Pond -- TAG on steroids -- Caver Tree -- Goat's Paradise -- Saving secrets -- Slow going -- Back door -- Crapshaw -- Convention.
Summary: "More than 10,000 known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. In this book, Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region's wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 551.447 T244 Available 33111010409742
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Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021



More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature , Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region's wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future.



As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving-- Cave Passages , Dark Life , and Caves --Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region's most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon , Outside , and Sports Illustrated ; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova .



Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author's long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Near Spencer -- Florida-Georgia line -- Bat season -- Finding caves -- Secret squirrel and the deep biosphere -- in Xanadu -- Graffiti -- The bridge -- The source -- On Tarball Pond -- TAG on steroids -- Caver Tree -- Goat's Paradise -- Saving secrets -- Slow going -- Back door -- Crapshaw -- Convention.

"More than 10,000 known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. In this book, Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region's wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future"-- Provided by publisher.

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