The Caves Beyond: The Story of the Floyd Collins' Crystal Cave Exploration HB

Joe Lawrence, Jr. and Roger W. Brucker. Hardbound. 6 maps, 318 pp. 6 x 9,. First edition, 1955. In February 1954, under the direction of Joe Lawrence, Jr., the National Speleological Society sent the largest, most highly organized, and best-equipped expedition in the history of American cave exploration into Floyd Collins' Crys- tal Cave, Kentucky. The Caves Beyond is the official account of that expedition. It is a classic American caving story. There is no other caving book like it. "This excellent book is by far the best written on the adventures of exploring a single cave . . . . This is really a terrific book, and if I had to single out the most enjoyable caving book in my library, this would be it." Chuck Pease.