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Adventures Underground 2
A journey of exploration through the caves of the Yorkshire Dales, by Dave Haigh and John Cordingley, second edition fully revised and extended
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Adventures Underground
Second edition
From the cover
ARTHUR Gemmell and Jack Myers’ classic 1952 book Underground Adventure about cave exploration in the Yorkshire Dales has been the inspiration for many a caver’s lifelong passion. Dave Haigh and John Cordingley are two such cave explorers who, in 2017, were motivated to write their own book, Adventures Underground, with many first-hand accounts of the region’s latest discoveries in which they had played significant roles. It brought to life the dedication, ingenuity and sheer hard work needed to break new ground and captured the thrill of exploration. Their book was well received and won a major literature award.
With revised and updated text, this larger second edition benefits from extra chapters and many new surveys and photos. As was its forerunner, it is written in a light-hearted humorous style to appeal to anyone interested in the outdoors as well as to seasoned cavers.
Dave and John continue their involvement in many exploration projects. Dave has decades of digging experience under his belt, leading to a large number of breakthroughs. He takes great pleasure in passing on his wealth of knowledge to encourage future generations of cave diggers. John was bitten by the bug of underground discovery from an early age and regularly clocks up new territory above and below water in his favourite caves.
All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to the authors’ chosen charities: cave rescue and the community swimming pool at Settle.
For files for the cover, contents and index please see the 'downloads' tab
Note: there will be a delay in posting for orders taken during November, but copies will be in the post in time for Christmas deliveries.
Authors
DAVE HAIGH has been involved with many of the Bradford Pothole Club’s discoveries in the Dales and first came up with the concept of Adventures Underground. An inveterate digger, he is well placed to write about the explorations, being so often linked with the breakthroughs, and has now helped to extend the first edition.
JOHN CORDINGLEY is a highly respected caver who, after a chance discussion, agreed to join the project that led to the initial publication. Arthur and Jack were friends of his and he knew they would have been delighted by the idea of continuing their story - which now reaches a new edition. John has contributed a wealth of knowledge of the magnificent caves of the Dales, both above and below water, and has written three new chapters for this edition.
First edition winner of the 2017 Tratman Award
The Tratman Award is presented annually to the best caving-related publication; it is considered to be hugely prestigious and the first edition of Adventures Underground won the award for 2017 against an incredibly strong field. The trophy, a hand-crafted model of a caver and featuring the book itself, was presented to Dave Haigh at the annual caving conference, Hidden Earth, on 23 September 2018.
Royalty donations
The authors are donating all royalties from this second edition of Adventures Underground to their chosen charities, equally divided between cave rescue and the community swimming pool at Settle.
Wild Places and the environment
Wild Places Publishing is environmentally aware and supports the work of the World Land Trust, an international conservation charity helping to protect threatened habitats, by using the services of certified local companies and suitably sourced materials. Our printer, Gomer Press, is a Certified Carbon Balanced Printer that offsets carbon impacts through the World Land Trust. Adventures Underground is printed on Claro Silk, a Forest Stewardship Council certified Elemental Chlorine Free (EFC) paper manufactured from sustainable sources and carbon balanced.
Click here for the World Land Trust certificate showing the amount of threatened tropical habitat that will be protected and restored.
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Data sheet
- Binding:
- Softback
- Size:
- 17cm x 24cm
- New or used:
- Book: new
- Pages:
- 288
- Illustrations:
- 330 photographs, 35 surveys and maps, in colour
- Publication date:
- 21 September 2024
- ISBN:
- 978-1-8382628-2-2
- Availability:
- Published 20 September 2024
- Postage:
- Included
- Stock no:
- AU2
- Author:
- Dave Haigh and John Cordingley
- EU delivery
- Deliveries to EU countries are despatched without tax paid. You are responsible for paying any VAT or other charges on delivery. Do not place an order if this is not accepted.
- Postage costs
- UK postage is included in the price. Additional postage costs for overseas destinations are calculated by adding the difference between UK and international postage prices
Specific References
- ISBN
- 978-1-8382628-2-2
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Adventures Underground
Increasingly, books recounting exploration of Britain’s limestone caves and potholes appear on shop bookshelves, promoting a maturity of attitude toward the pursuit of speleology that lurid press reactions to occasional rescues in the mid-20th Century had stifled and mis-informed. Although all accounts are praiseworthy, very few have attained the relaxed yet magisterial style of Adventures Underground. First published in 2017, this fine text sought to bring up to date the explorations detailed in Gemmell and Myers’ Underground Adventure (1952), arguably the seminal text stimulating generations of skilled Yorkshire potholers, while successfully retaining the same format and approach. In the interim only one other book attempted such a hommage, David Heap’s Potholing. Beneath the Northern Pennines (1964), now long out of print.
Admirably written by Dave Haigh and John Cordingley, Adventures Underground covered every aspect of Yorkshire potholing, most importantly giving context to new explorations and how they fit into the bigger picture. Rapidly running out of print – which tells its own story of how popular the book was – led to this revised edition which has been thoroughly updated and expanded. Necessarily, now that most obvious cave entrances have long been investigated, digging away glacial blockages and/or pursuing underwater tunnels have become the only ways to reveal new territory, meaning an element of risk is undeniable and neither author shrinks from ‘telling it as it is’ boldly describing ‘hairy’ experiences with honesty and humour. Indeed, it is the delightfully readable first-hand accounts that provide pleasure and astonishment in equal proportions. Everything is illustrated with a multitude of first-class photographs and clear, easy to follow cave surveys. No one can possibly read this book without developing a deep respect for cutting-edge explorations that in a future world will maybe, just maybe, result in an almost unbelievable Trans-Craven cave network reaching from western Cumbria to Nidderdale’s Coniston Moor in the east.
This book is easy reading, highly enjoyable, very informative and, as I stated in my 2017 review, a work you simply cannot be without. It is saturated with the easy camaraderie enjoyed by every caver who has participated in entering territory where no human has ever been before. A landmark achievement in British geographical writing and, in short, quite definitely the best caving narrative in fifty years of British speleology.
Alan L. Jeffreys
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