Journey to the Bottomless Pit
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0439826403
ISBN 13
9780439826402
Category
Fiction: Historical Events
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Scholastic Inc., United States
Pages
100
Abstract
Based on the narratives of those who toured the cave with him, Journey to the Bottomless Pit is the first book for young readers ever written about Stephen Bishop. Through Stephen Bishop's story, author Elizabeth Mitchell takes readers on a tour of one of the most thrilling natural wonders of the world.
Description
If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you would have been led by candlelight through miles of dark winding tunnels to the edge of a terrifying bottomless pit and, amazingly, an underground church! You tour guide would have been seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop, an African American and a slave.
Bishop had a job he found truly thrilling: exploring and recording every inch of his exciting discoveries of Mammoth Cave and escorting tourists to see them with their own eyes. What made him the greatest explorer of Mammoth Cave was his excitement for adventure and the thrill he felt each time he showed visitors how to stoop, bend, and crawl through passages--some located far from the traditional route.
Bishop had a job he found truly thrilling: exploring and recording every inch of his exciting discoveries of Mammoth Cave and escorting tourists to see them with their own eyes. What made him the greatest explorer of Mammoth Cave was his excitement for adventure and the thrill he felt each time he showed visitors how to stoop, bend, and crawl through passages--some located far from the traditional route.
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