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The caves beneath the Peak District have intrigued humankind for thousands of years. As people explored further into the caves, they would often reach a point where the roof sloped down into a pool of water and they could go no further. This book tells the story of those who would not be stopped by the water and who, by a combination of determination, resourcefulness, technical innovation and a good measure of courage, sought to dive through those pools, to enter the unknown passages and to discover what lay beyond. This is a tale of true adventure and exploration, told by one of those involved.
Martin is donating all royalties from the sale of this book to his chosen charity, the Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation.MARTIN WRIGHT started caving in 1982 and undertook his first cave dive in 1991. He went on to qualify as a cave diver with both the Cave Diving Group of Great Britain and the National Association for Cave Diving based in the USA. He was the first cave diver to use helium mixtures for deep diving in a Peak District cave and has dived to explore new cave passages in the UK, France and Mexico. Martin and his family live in the Peak District; his wife Karen is a former diver and their daughter, Lydia, is a history teacher.
Martin is donating all royalties from the sale of this book to his chosen charity, the Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation.
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Classic Caves of the Peak District by Iain Barker
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More Journeys Beneath the Earth by David William Gill
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First International Meeting of Cave Photographers by Philippe Crochet and Michel Renda
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Jim Eyre's classic autobiography, part two, taking him from the caving expeditions of the 1960s through trials and tribulations to India in the 2000s. In it, Jim produced another masterpiece by turn both solemn and outrageously funny.
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The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and Robert Twigger.
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An introduction to the sport of caving, for youngsters between the ages of ten and early teens, by Chris Howes
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Exploring the Karst and Caves of the Gower Peninsula edited by John S. Cooper
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Alan Thomas' collection of cave diving stories of exploration, published under the Ina Books imprint.
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Aquanaut by Rick Stanton is subtitled 'A life beneath the surface' and concerns the hugely successful cave rescue in Thailand in 2018, as written by one of the lead divers.
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Roches et Montagnes des Alpes Françaises du Nord
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Memoirs of a Speleologist: The Adventurous Life of a Famous French Cave Explorer by Robert de Joly, translated from the French.
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