Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms

In conjunction with 2001 IMAX® film, this sumptuously illustrated book takes you into the planet's last unexplored provinces. Renowned author Michael Ray Taylor guides an astounding journey into the wonders and hazards of caving. Along the way, he introduces a pair of expert cavers as they tackle the sweeping, awe-inspiring beauty of Greenland's ice caves; the dramatic underwater realm beneath the jungles of the Yucatan; and the vertigo-inducing pits in the wild caves of the American Southwest. Aided by trail-blazing IMAX® camera technology, Caves delivers hundreds of vivid images of places no large-format camera has ever been before and conveys the excitement, terror, and exhilaration of the world's vast and least accessible spaces. Featuring compelling and informative sidebars from leading cave scientists, and a foreward by Ronald C. Kerbo, chief cave specialist of the U.S. National Park Service.