Looks like this is also available on iBooks (for Apple stuff), search for "Elusive Majesty" and it's the only hit.
I intend to download it when I'm at home and I'll bring it to the Posse on Wednesday, for those in the UT Grotto who'd like to see what it looks like. Cheers, Stefan -----Original Message----- From: Mixon Bill [mailto:[email protected]] 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 -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. ARM Limited, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2557590 ARM Holdings plc, Registered office 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NJ, Registered in England & Wales, Company No: 2548782 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
