Mammoth Cave National Park - Books

Beneath Their Feet: A Novel about Mammoth Cave and Its People Patricia H. Quinlan From the Publisher: From heartache to joy, these are the stories of mummies, earthquakes and a doomed hospital in a cave, dynamite and thievery. Here is a history spanning the first 130 years of the longest cave in the world.Beneath Their Feet is told through the fictional lives of four generations living on Mammoth Cave Ridge until the government bought their farm to make room for one of the country’s most colorful National Parks.Beneath Their Feet is a colorful tapestry interwoven between the real and the imagined involving the lives of the Penn and Lamber families. This is a story involving the hardships and struggles of these strong, independent, hard-working men and women who formed a part of south-central Kentucky, wrested from a sparsely populated land of hard clay.Beneath Their Feet is the first book to tell the history of Mammoth Cave in novel form. Our Price: $21.95

Fun with the Family in Kentucky: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids Teresa Day From the Publisher: From Big Bone Lick State Park to the Junior Jockey Club, this guide supplies hundreds of terrific ideas for family-friendly outings to residents and visitors alike. Each evocative entry describes what to see and provides all the vital information to get there. Includes: Kentucky Horse Park; Louisville Slugger Museum; The Falls of the Ohio; John James Audubon State Park; Mammoth Cave National Park; Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science; Shaker Museum; Kentucky Highlands Museum and Discovery Center; Newport Aquarium; Art Sparks Interactive Gallery. Our Price: $12.95

America’s National Parks For Dummies Kurt Repanshek From the Publisher: America’s National Parks For Dummies features 15 of the most popular national parks in the Lower 48, including Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone National Parks. Author and self-styled parkie Kurt Repanshek hits all the highlights from the East Coast to the West. He’s checked out all the parks’ best lodgings and restaurants in person, and offers honest opinions that help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. He also gives you the rundown on the most worthwhile activities and tells you which trails to take to discover the parks’ natural treasures. The book also includes one-day itineraries for those with limited time and tips on activities for families, photographers, animal-watchers, and sports-minded travelers. Plus, excellent maps ensure that you won’t get lost along the way. Synopsis: This well-organized guide is easy to use and packed with great tips for avoiding crowds, saving money, and finding the best off-the-beaten-path attractions in each park. America’s National Parks for Dummies provides an in-depth look at 15 of the most scenic national parks, including Mammoth Cave, Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Zion. Each park gets its own chapter, allowing room for plenty of essential details -- where to eat, sleep, and explore -- plus safety tips, and recommendations for the best spots to take pictures. Special chapters devoted to planning your trip, transportation, and getting the most out of your national park vacation make this guidebook an excellent resource. Our Price: $19.99

National Parks Coloring Book Peter F. Copeland From the Publisher: Treasury of detailed, ready-to-color illustrations depicting typical scenes from 50 United States national parks: Grand Canyon, Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest and 45 more. Informative captions describe distinguishing features of each park, flora and fauna, visitor activities available, more. Useful guide to major attractions of these splendid preserves. 50 black-and-white illustrations. 4 in color on covers. Our Price: $3.95

Mammoth Cave (National Park Series): National Park Mike Graf From the Publisher: What lies in the passages of the world’s longest cave? Learn about blind cavefish, the Snowball Room, a gunpowder mine, and more in this book about Mammoth Cave National Park. The full-color photos and maps make reading about this large cave and the area surrounding it easy and fun. From The Critics: Children’s Literature - Sally J. K. Davies Did you know Mammoth Cave National Park has a special "Frog Tour" just for kids? Young visitors wear cave hats and lanterns as they clamber through the narrow cave openings. Those planning a trip to visit this National Park in central Kentucky will find plenty of interesting facts and useful information about the park in this book. Other National Parks featured in this series include the Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Zion National Park. All follow the same format and cover geological formation, population, plants, animals, and weather typical of each individual park. Every book in the series discusses activities, safety, and problems specific to the region. These books would make an excellent first resource for families or schools planning a visit to a National Park. The back matter contains a short list of useful addresses, internet sites, a glossary, a bibliography and an index. 2004, Capstone Press, Ages 7 to 10. Our Price: $19.93

Ice Age History of Southwestern National Parks Scott A. Elias From the Publisher: With its warm, dry climate and abundance of caves and rockshelters, the Southwest is a repository of fossils that provide unparalleled opportunities to study the ancient past. During the last ice age - more than 10,000 years ago - the desert regions of the American Southwest flourished, with conifer woodlands blanketing a landscape where camels, mammoths, dire wolves, short-faced bears, and ground sloths thrived. Recreating the past landscape and life forms of the Southwest, this guidebook examines a pivotal period in the ecological history of five southwestern national parks - Canyonlands, Grand Canyon, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Big Bend - recounting as well the coming of humans to the region and the ascendance of the ecosystems we see today. Drawing on fossil evidence from cave sediments and packrat middens - collections of plants, insects, and vertebrate bones - Scott A. Elias describes how the increased precipitation and cooler temperatures of the Pleistocene affected the desert environment. He also traces the impact of ancient cultures on the landscape, from the earliest inhabitants to the Anasazi. Surveying the basic types of vertebrate, insect, and plant fossils and outlining dating methods as well as other field techniques, the book covers geology, climate, and paleoecology - the interactions among prehistoric plants and animals. For hikers, tourists, and amateur paleontologists, Elias opens a window onto the natural history of one of America’s most dramatic regions. Our Price: $17.95

Beneath Their Feet: A Novel about Mammoth Cave and Its People Patricia H. Quinlan From the Publisher: From heartache to joy, these are the stories of mummies, earthquakes and a doomed hospital in a cave, dynamite and thievery. Here is a history spanning the first 130 years of the longest cave in the world.Beneath Their Feet is told through the fictional lives of four generations living on Mammoth Cave Ridge until the government bought their farm to make room for one of the country’s most colorful National Parks.Beneath Their Feet is a colorful tapestry interwoven between the real and the imagined involving the lives of the Penn and Lamber families. This is a story involving the hardships and struggles of these strong, independent, hard-working men and women who formed a part of south-central Kentucky, wrested from a sparsely populated land of hard clay.Beneath Their Feet is the first book to tell the history of Mammoth Cave in novel form. Our Price: $31.95

Wildflowers of Mammoth Cave National Park Randy Seymour From the Publisher: Wildflowers of Mammoth Cave National Park provides an in-depth field guide to 400 wildflowers found along the trails and roads within the park, nearly all of them species found throughout Kentucky and in neighboring states. Each wildflower is represented by a brilliant full-color photograph and accompanied by a text that identifies its characteristics: colors, floral and leaf forms, flowering time, and native or introduced status, as well as the plant’s folklore, past herbal or medicinal use, and myriad other myths and historical facts. For those enthusiasts eager to search for new discoveries, the appendixes provide tables showing the observed flowering period, a flower hunting planning guide, and an index of flowers by trail. Here is an indispensable book for the amateur enthusiast and the professional botanist alike. Our Price: $14.95

A Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park Arthur N. Palmer Our Price: $6.95

Mammoth Cave National Park: Reflections Raymond Klass List Price: $$25.00 Our Price: $20.00