Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins
A revised edition of Trapped! marks 100 years since the tragic Floyd Collins’ cave entrapment.
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The Caves Beyond
In 1954, explorers spent a week underground retracing Floyd Collins’ steps in Flint Ridge caves.
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Beyond Mammoth Cave
Join explorers as they descend dangerous pits, bellycrawl through bone-chilling water, and dodge falling rocks deep underground.
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The Longest Cave
A classic of caving literature. Watson and Brucker take readers on a series of gruelling expeditions.
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Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins
The entrapment of Floyd Collins in a remote Kentucky cave in 1925 was one of the most sensational news events of the early 20th century, attracting thousands of spectators to the rescue site and leading it to be recognized as the first “media circus” in the history of American journalism. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of that tragic event, University Press of Kentucky will release a revised edition of Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins, by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker. With a new afterword by Brucker, this third edition includes a foreword by playwright and director Tina Landau, whose musical Floyd Collins will have its Broadway debut on April 21. Preview performances begin March 28 at the Vivan Beaumont Theatre. The revised edition of Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins can be ordered below.
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