James D. Borden is a data storage manager at Vencor, Inc. Louisville, Kentucky. He is a Fellow of the National Speleological Society, a past director of the Cave Research Foundation, and managing director of the Central Kentucky Karst Coalition.
Roger W. Brucker, retired Dayton, Ohio, advertising executive, fellow of the National Speleological Society, and past president of the Cave Research Foundation, is coauthor of three books: The Caves Beyond (with Joe Lawrence Jr.), Trapped! The Story of the Floyd Collins (with Robert K. Murray), and The Longest Cave (with Richard A. Watson), also available from Southern Illinois University Press.
"[T]his book tells the whole truth . . . of the political intrigue and rivalry between the Cave Research Foundation (CRF) and the Central Kentucky Karst Coalition (CKKC) as they each make discoveries and hide secrets in the race to connect Mammoth Cave with Roppel Cave. With books like this there will never be a shortage of cavers."--National Speleological Society News "Beyond Mammoth Cave will appeal to both cave explorers and armchair explorers. . . . It is a story that draws one in and is an honest look at real exploration by ordinary people who have ordinary faults but become obsessive and legitimate explorers. The conflicts are real and add a credible and cohesive level of detail to the description of the events."--Emily Davis Mobley, coeditor of A Guide to Speleological Literature of the English Language: 1794-1996
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