Hoveys handbook of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky: A practical guide to the regulation routes with maps and illustrations
Hovey HC. 1909. Hoveys handbook of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky: A practical guide to the regulation routes with maps and illustrations. John P. Morton & Company. Louisville, KY
Guide book which gives a geologic over-view of the cave area and presents narrative descriptions and many black and white photographs of the Mammoth Cave. The narrative passages follow the regulation tour routes of the period, describe the formations and passage development and give multiple stories as to the naming of the various areas within the cave. More than four hundred books, pamphlets, scientific reports, and magazine articles have been published by different writers, besides innumerable newspaper contributions, about Kentucky's great cavern. Copies of most of these are in the author's library. Yet there is a demand, and there seems to be room, for such a practical, condensed, and up-to-date hand-book as is now offered. It does not claim to tell all that might be told; and it omits much material that might interest the historian or the scientist. Its design is to aid the average visitor as he follows the four regulation routes by which the Cave is ordinarily exhibited.
- Type
- Book
- Authors
- Hovey, Horace
- Date of Issue
- 1909
- Publisher
- John P. Morton & Company
- Units
- HIST , MACA
- Keywords
- Cave Passages, Caves, ehistory, Geology, History, Human Use, Physical Sciences, Speleogenesis, Tour Routes, Visitors