Space Invaders.(Entering the Stone)(Chauvet Cave)(The Mind in the Cave)(Book Review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 27-OCT-03

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"It's a torture chamber, I think, a too-small casket tilted foot-up and you're the one inside," Barbara Hurd writes in Entering the Stone (Houghton Mifflin). Hurd, a caver for the past ten years, describes the difficulty of crawling through narrow subterranean passageways, called "flatteners" or "squeezes." While tourists visit...

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