Lechuguilla - Jewel of the Underground
By Urs Widmer
1998
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Despite its extent and beauty, Lechuguilla cave can never be opened to the public. Its unique formations have formed under totally sealed conditions, and have to be protected from human intrusion. This book offers a photographic record of the cave.
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Author
Urs Widmer
Author · 9 books
Urs Widmer was born in Basel in 1938. He studied German, Romance languages and History in Basel, Montpellier and Paris. In 1966 he completed his doctoral thesis on German postwar prose, and then worked as an editor for Walter Publishing House in Olten, Switzerland, and for Suhrkamp Publishing House in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt he stayed for 17 years, though with Suhrkamp only until 1968. Together with other editors he founded the ›Verlag der Autoren‹. Until his death Urs Widmer lived and worked as a writer in Zurich.
