Wonderstruck

$49.95

Caves are places of wonder and mystery. By 1840 a Gothic regime of candles and bark torches. heightened the thrill of the ‘Sublime’ within Wet Cave on Mole Creek, in northern Tasmania. More than a dozen Tasmanian tourist caves, from Gunns Plains to Ida Bay, have glistened in guiding light. Farmers turned to home-baked hospitality when the Industrial Revolution mobilised urban excursionists, opening private ‘show’ caves by the glow of acetylene gas. After World War II, Sam Carey’s Tasmanian Caverneering Club, the first Australian caving club, began a quest to discover, record and protect Tasmanian caves which continues today. Wonderstruck: treasuring Tasmania’s caves and karst is the story of these journeys of subterranean discovery, the myths and the legends, the explorers and the ecological battlegrounds, the ‘master’ caves and the megafauna dens, the entrepreneurs and the raconteurs.

Copies will be signed by Nic and delivered to your door.

RRP $49.95 +$5.00 (GST inclusive) postage (Australia wide).

‘Payment options using PayPal, credit and debit cards are available. If you would prefer to pay by bank transfer, place an order through my website and select ‘direct bank transfer’ as the payment method. Transfer the relevant funds to Account name: Nicolas Haygarth  BSB: 633000 Account number: 197414717. Orders will be shipped when transfers clear.

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Caves are places of wonder and mystery. By 1840 a Gothic regime of candles and bark torches. heightened the thrill of the ‘Sublime’ within Wet Cave on Mole Creek, in northern Tasmania. More than a dozen Tasmanian tourist caves, from Gunns Plains to Ida Bay, have glistened in guiding light. Farmers turned to home-baked hospitality when the Industrial Revolution mobilised urban excursionists, opening private ‘show’ caves by the glow of acetylene gas. After World War II, Sam Carey’s Tasmanian Caverneering Club, the first Australian caving club, began a quest to discover, record and protect Tasmanian caves which continues today. Wonderstruck: treasuring Tasmania’s caves and karst is the story of these journeys of subterranean discovery, the myths and the legends, the explorers and the ecological battlegrounds, the ‘master’ caves and the megafauna dens, the entrepreneurs and the raconteurs.

Copies will be signed by Nic and delivered to your door.

RRP $49.95 +$5.00 (GST inclusive) postage (Australia wide).

‘Payment options using PayPal, credit and debit cards are available. If you would prefer to pay by bank transfer, place an order through my website and select ‘direct bank transfer’ as the payment method. Transfer the relevant funds to Account name: Nicolas Haygarth  BSB: 633000 Account number: 197414717. Orders will be shipped when transfers clear.

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