Hiya, Josh! I hear you and Schindel have been talking about me... ;^
The recovery of Louben's body is the subject of what I consider a caving clasic, Caves of
Adventure by Haroun Tazieff.
It's long been a fave of mine and is a true classic. Quite by accident, I found a first-edition
copy of
This article appears to be from 1952:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816782,00.html
It talks about a fatal caving accident in France.
Note: According to the author, the term spelunker is short for
speleologist.
Also, they found troglobitic cockroaches.
I didn't know there
On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:02 AM, David wrote:
Also, they found troglobitic cockroaches.
I didn't know there was such a thing until now. But apparently
they have been
found in Australia and Thailand?
I don't know if they are troblobitic or troglophilic or
troglowhatever, but there are a
The recovery of Louben's body is the subject of what I consider a caving
clasic, *Caves of Adventure* by Haroun Tazieff.
If a martian naturelist comes to our planet, he or she or it will announce
the dominant lifeform is Beetles (including cockroachs). There are more
species of Coleoptra than
] an old caving story
The recovery of Louben's body is the subject of what I consider a caving
clasic, Caves of Adventure by Haroun Tazieff.
If a martian naturelist comes to our planet, he or she or it will announce the
dominant lifeform is Beetles (including cockroachs). There are more species
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The recovery of Louben's body is the subject of what I consider a caving
clasic, *Caves of Adventure* by Haroun Tazieff.
If a martian
