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Endless Caverns - An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia (Hardcover)
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Endless Caverns - An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 140
You Save R169 (25%)
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For generations, enterprising people in the southern Appalachians
have turned the region's extensive network of caves into a strange,
fascinating genre of tourist attraction. Visitors pay admission to
take a tour deep underground, learning a little about history and
geology while puzzling over lit-up rock formations said to resemble
anything from Niagara Falls to the Capitol dome. Then off go the
lights, enveloping the travelers in total darkness-until the guide
flips them back on and welcomes folks back into the safety of the
inevitable gift shop. Show caves, as Douglas Reichert Powell
explains in Endless Caverns, are at once predictable and
astonishing, ancient and modern, eerie and sentimental. Their story
sparks memories of a fleeting cool moment deep underground during a
hot summer vacation, capturing in microcosm the history and culture
of a region where a deeply rooted sense of place collides with
constant change. Reichert Powell takes readers along on his journey
through the past and present of Appalachia's show caves,
highlighting the characters who have owned and operated them, the
ways the attractions have developed and changed over the years, and
the odd intrigue that still leads people to buy their ticket and
head underground. Tourist tastes may shift as interstates whisk
travelers past the backroads and on to trendier destinations, but
the show cave-like Appalachia itself-endures.
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