"Journey into the Giant Selenite Crystal Caves of Mexico." Leela
Hutchison. CreateSpace; 2014. ISBN 978-1496145680. 6 by 9 inches,
softbound, 102 pages. $19.95.
This little book was self-published by the author using CreateSpace
and is sold by Amazon. There is also a Kindle version. One might
expect a book with such a high price per page to contain a lot of nice
color photos of the spectacular giant crystals, but in fact the book
contains only a few small, mostly poor-quality black-and-white ones.
The text isn't much either, the type being large, and isn't much to
brag about, either. It could have used a good going over by a middle-
school English teacher. After some background on the author's interest
in crystals, it tells the story of the author's 2001 visit to the
recently discovered Ojo de la Reina and Cave of the Crystals in the
Naica mine in Chihuahua. She was one of the first two women to visit
the caves, apparently on the same trip when Carlos Lazcano took the
first photographs of the crystals to be published in caving
literature, in "AMCS Activities Newsletter" 25, 2002. The visit,
without benefit of the cooling gear used on later explorations, was
grueling, but very exciting to the author, who is into healing by
crystal energy and that sort of thing.—Bill Mixon
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