About the Author

Alan G. Fincham is Professor of Biochemistry, University of South California, Los Angeles. He has been exploring caves since his early teens in England. While working as lecturer in biochemistry at the University of the West Indies, Fincham became an active organizer of the Jamaica Caving Club. Recognizing the need to catalogue the numerous caves of the island, he published the first edition of Jamaica Underground in 1977 through the Geological Society of Jamaica.