The Wilderness Underground
University of Missouri Press (Verlag)
978-0-8262-0811-8 (ISBN)
H. Dwight Weaver's engaging text explores the diverse topography of the Ozark Plateau. Weaver traces the mystique of caves from the days of Native American Indians to the 1950s when modern cave explorers began the great cave quest that has led to the discovery of more than 6,000 caves in the region and introduces the reader to past and present denizens of the Ozark caves.
H. Dwight Weaver, (text author for The Wilderness Underground), is a public information specialist for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in Jefferson City, Missouri. Author of Missouri, the Cave State, Weaver is co-founder of Missouri Speleogy and has been exploring caves for thirty-five years. James N. Huckins, (photo editor for The Wilderness Underground), a caver for twenty-five years, is a research environmental chemist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Columbia, Missouri. He has served as a judge for the annual photography contest of the National Association for Conservation Information. Rickard L. Walk, (photo editor for The Wilderness Underground), is a certified registered nurse anestetist in Columbia, Missouri. He is an avid outdoor photographer whose work appears in Colorful Missouri. He has been a caver for ten years.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.1992 |
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| Zusatzinfo | illustrations (some colour) |
| Verlagsort | Missouri |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 850 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8262-0811-8 / 0826208118 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8262-0811-8 / 9780826208118 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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