In February, 1954, under the direction of Joe Lawrence, Jr., the
National Speleological Society sent the largest, most highly
organized, and best equipped expedition in the history of American
cave exploration into Floyd Collins' Crystal Cave, Kentucky. The Caves Beyond is the official account of that expedition
and a classic American caving story. There is no other caving book
like it.
First published in 1955 in an edition of 10,000 copies, the book
was out of print soon afterwards. Good copies of the rare first
edition are a sought after prize to book collectors. This quality
reprint reproduces every word and picture of the original edition.
Brucker's new introduction to the long awaited reprint edition
reveals a number of "untold stories" about the expedition, including
stories of the politics behind the C-3 expedition and of how the book
came to be written in an attic in Brooklyn in two weeks' time. There
is also a detailed index, which the first edition lacked.
Joe Lawrence, Jr., and Roger Brucker
second edition, 1975
ISBN 0-914264-18-4
xxvii+290 pages, softbound
