📚 Caves

The passages under: limestone and time, the explorers’ ledgers, and the specialized life that prefers the dark.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject caves in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Cave regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills	Luella Agnes Owen	1898	15
	Historia rievallensis	William Eastmead	1824	7
	A Guide Manual to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky	Charles W. Wright	1860	7
	Caves (Landforms)	Cassie Mayer	2006	7
	The cave temples of India	James Fergusson	1880	5
	Caving	Ernest Albert Baker	1932	5
	The story of caves	Dorothy Sterling	1956	4
	The caves of France and northern Spain	Ann Sieveking	1962	4
	The Darkness Beckons	Martyn Farr	1980	4
	Caves	Sally M. Walker	2007	4
	Blind descent	James M. Tabor	2010	4
	Animalium cavernarum catalogus	Benno Wolf	1934	3
	Höhlen der grossen Jäger	Hans Baumann	1954	3
	Celebrated American caves	Charles E. Mohr	1955	3
	On station	George R. Dasher	1994	3
	Caves!	Jeanne Bendick	1995	3
	Entering the Stone	Barbara Hurd	2003	3
	Gypsum cave, Nevada	Harrington, M. R.	1933	2
	Faunal and archeological researches in Yucatan caves	Robert T. Hatt	1953	2
	Caves of Illinois	J. Harlen Bretz	1961	2
	Caves of Massachusetts	Peter M. Hauer	1969	2
	Cave	Donald M. Silver	1993	2
	On rope	Smith, Bruce	1996	2
	Caves of Missouri	J. Harlen Bretz	1956	1
	Caves of Tennessee	Thomas Calhoun Barr	1961	1
	Caves of California	William R. Halliday	1962	1
	Descriptions of Tennessee Caves	Larry E. Matthews	1971	1
	Mapping underwater caves	Sheck Exley	1973	1
	Descriptions of Virginia caves	John R. Holsinger	1975	1
	Hauts-lieux sacrés dans le sous-sol d'Haïti	Antoine Salgado	1980	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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