Here is another Mike Boon story. I think I had occasion to tell it on
this list within the last year or so, but here it is again. In late
1977 I wrote for the Windy City Speleonews the following book review.
Down To a Sunless Sea. J.M. Boon. Stalactite Press, Edmonton; 1977.
105pp., plates. $12.50 (plus $1.50 p and p, from Stalactite Press,
Department of Geography, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2H4, Canada.)
Mike Boon writes well, but not well enough to make up for the fact
that this is a bunch of trip reports, mostly from England and
Ireland, written before 1967 and published in 1977 at a 1987 price.
It was a slim volume, albeit hardbound, selling for what was in 1977
quite a lot. At the next NSS convention, in New Braunfels in 1978,
Mike Boon had a table set up in the hall to sell his book, under a
poster advertising it. Prominent on the poster was the line Mike Boon
write well. Bill Mixon. Fair enough -- Mixon
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