Back in 2011, I did extensive copy-editing of a manuscript called "A
Fine Cave: The Elusive Splendor of Lechuguilla Cave, A Twenty-Year
Odyssey of Discovery," by Ron DeLano with Donald Davis. It turned out
to be quite a project, as the text was about 170,000 words. At the
time I envisioned a book something like "Deep Secrets," about the same
cave, with a few maps for clarity and a token number of color photos.
For a while we thought that the NSS might publish the book, but that
didn't work out. (My editing was not predicated on that assumption. I
just figured if I didn't do it, nobody would.) The difficulty, if not
impossibility, of finding a commercial publisher for the book,
together with DeLano's reluctance to sign over the copyright, has
caused him to publish it himself as an e-book, and as a trilogy, since
DeLano has added, I'm told, 175 illustrations.
The first third of the book is now available as "Elusive Majesty: Part
1 of the Exploration of the World's Most Beautiful Cave." Supposedly
all major sources of e-books have it. One for sure is Amazon as a
Kindle book for $9.99:
http://www.amazon.com/Elusive-Majesty-Exploration-Worlds-Beautiful-ebook/dp/B00I0GP4RA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1390585419&sr=1-1&keywords=lechuguilla
or just search for Ron DeLano or Elusive Majesty.
So far I have only seen the text. I suppose sooner or later I'll break
down and buy a version I can view on my computer, although I'm not
real interested in e-books with rights protection, so that I
presumably couldn't even shelve a copy on disk. I can say that cavers
will find the text a good read, if occasionally controversial. And of
course it's hardly possible to take a bad photograph of Lechuguilla
Cave. -- Mixon
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