Rambles In Mammoth Cave was originally published in 1845. Alexander Clark Bullitt describes the cave as easily accessible, with comfortable local accommodations, and as offering safe and pleasurable cave trips for ladies and gentleman. The book provides beautiful descriptions of the sights in the cave that could be seen by visitors in 1844 and can still be seen by visitors today. It has been a source book for all future guidebooks and remains a most attractive souvenir for visitors who want to remember their trip into Mammoth Cave.
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"This 100 page volume . . . . is one of the earliest accounts of the exploration of what is now the largest cave in the world . . . . [It] is still amazingly accurate. So accurate in fact, that many of the later publications dealing with Mammoth Cave are based extensively on this work. There is a twenty-eight page introduction by Harold Meloy in this reprint edition that summarizes the early days of exploration at Mammoth Cave and details the literary history of the volume. Surprisingly, by 1844, a half dozen volumes had already been written about the cave. But it is Bullitt's book that had become recognized as the most definitive work about original exploration of the famous cave. The physical reproduction of the text is excellent and the binding worthy of the classic this is." --International Journal of Speleology
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Plucker 78 kB
QiOO Mobile 113 kB
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Review
"This 100 page volume . . . . is one of the earliest accounts of the exploration of what is now the largest cave in the world . . . . [It] is still amazingly accurate. So accurate in fact, that many of the later publications dealing with Mammoth Cave are based extensively on this work. There is a twenty-eight page introduction by Harold Meloy in this reprint edition that summarizes the early days of exploration at Mammoth Cave and details the literary history of the volume. Surprisingly, by 1844, a half dozen volumes had already been written about the cave. But it is Bullitt's book that had become recognized as the most definitive work about original exploration of the famous cave. The physical reproduction of the text is excellent and the binding worthy of the classic this is." --International Journal of Speleology