📚 Caving

Caves as a science and a sport: formation, exploration, and the survey that maps the dark.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject speleology 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
	Speleology	George William Moore	1964	5
	The complete book of cave exploration	Roy Pinney	1962	4
	Encyclopedia of Caves	William B. White	2004	4
	Microbial Life of Cave Systems	Annette Summers Engel	2015	4
	British caving	Cecil Howard Dunstan Cullingford	1953	3
	Actes du IVe Congres International de Speleologie en Yougoslavie (12-26 IX 1965)	Various	1968	3
	Höhlenkunde	Hubert Trimmel	1968	3
	American caves and caving	William R. Halliday	1982	3
	Karst Hydrology and Physical Speleology	A. Bögli	2011	3
	Speleological and Speleogenetic Aspects of the Monti di Capo San Vito	Rosario Ruggieri	2015	3
	Deep down	Garry Hogg	1961	2
	Deep in caves and caverns	Lynn Poole	1962	2
	Life and death underground	James Lovelock	1963	2
	Grutas calcárias	José Epitácio Passos Guimarães	1966	2
	Depths of the earth	William R. Halliday	1966	2
	Caves of the Inter-American Highway	William H. Russell	1967	2
	Bibliographie spéléologique belge	Guy de Block	1968	2
	Andare per grotte	Giuseppe Guerrini	1972	2
	History of cave science	Trevor R. Shaw	1979	2
	Caves	Ronal C. Kerbo	1981	2
	Cave Minerals of the World	Carol A. Hill	1986	2
	Türkiyenin speleolojik olanakları =	Unknown author	1992	2
	On rope	Smith, Bruce	1996	2
	Vorstoß in die Unterwelt	Herbert W. Franke	2003	2
	Encyclopedia of caves	David C. Culver	2004	2
	Diamond Caverns	Stanley D. Sides	2007	2
	Blue Spring Cave	Larry E. Matthews	2010	2
	Ice Caves	Aurel Persoiu	2017	2
	Account of the great cavern of Boobon in the Cossyah Mountains	Alfred Duvaucel	1828	1
	British caves and speleology	E. A. Martel	1897	1

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

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