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.
Table des matières
1. Near Spencer
2. Florida-Georgia Line
3. Bat Season
4. Finding Caves
5. Secret Squirrel & the Deep Biosphere
6. In Xanadu
7. Graffiti
8. The Bridge
9. The Source
10. On Tarball Pond
11. TAG on Steroids
12. The Caver Tree
13. Goat’s Paradise
14. Saving Secrets
15. Slow Going
16. Back Door
17. Crapshaw
18. Convention
If You Want to Go Caving . . .
Notes
Bibliography
Photography & Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Michael Ray Taylor, professor of communication, chairs the Communication and Theatre Department at Henderson State University in Arkansas. He is the author of several books, including Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves, as well as articles in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Wired, Audubon, Reader's Digest, Outside, and many other print and digital publications.
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