Endless Caverns
An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia
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 an…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4696-6943-4
- EAN: 9781469669434
- Produktnummer: 37503765
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 234 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 405 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 405
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