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Mammoth Cave curiosities : a guide to rockphobia, dating, saber-toothed cats, and other subterranean marvels /
Sir Elton John, blind fish, the original Twinkie, President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, and mummies don't usually come up in the same conversation -- unless you're at Mammoth Cave National Park! Home to the earth's longest known cave system, this UNESCO World Heritage...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Mammoth Cave dating guide (not how to get a date with a Mammoth Cave guide)
- Rockphobia: rockfall, earthquakes, and caves
- Bones: what's left of exciting but dead animals in Mammoth Cave
- Secret lives of cave critters revealed!
- The gypsum twinkie connection: and other uses of cave minerals
- Prairie park companion: Mammoth Cave National Park's prairie restoration
- Prehistoric cavers
- Saltpeter: an explosive subject
- The cave cure: old and new ideas on the healing powers of caves
- Exploring the world's longest cave
- The cave wars
- Want a 2:00 a.m. cave tour? Come to great onyx!
- Cave Guide Coy Hanson: electric lights, the Mammoth Cave Railroad, and other stuff
- Lost John: the discovery of a mummy
- CCC Boy Fred k. Hanie Jr
- Ronald Reagan's visit to Mammoth Cave
- Rachel Wilson, a woman in the underground world of men
- Nuclear-fallout shelters in Mammoth Cave
- The literary mammoth
- Celebrities underground
- Colossal cave adventure: cave meets computer
- Cave jokes: the lowest form of humor.