Jan's Reviews > Entering The Stone: On Caves And Feeling Through The Dark

Certain books are obviously written by poets, and this is one. My only experience with caves was total claustrophobia in a crawlspace extension of the Laurel Caverns at summer camp. I got out damp, muddy, sweaty, and vowing never to enter a cave again. Hurd talks about this claustrophobia in the first essay, then goes on to conquer it and explore caves all over the world. Her writing is graceful, descriptive, soaring. My only complaint was that she left one story unfinished. Funny to read her comments on metaphors - they're distracting and even dangerous if you think of them while exploring a cave. Lucky for us, she wrote them down afterwards. I may never go into a cave again, but I really enjoyed this book.