Journey to the bottomless pit
Subtitle: the story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave
By: Elizabeth Mitchell ; illustrations by Kellyn [i.e. Kelynn] Alder
Contributors: Alder, Kelynn, illustrator
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780439826402
Subjects: Fiction; Juvenile fiction; Caves; Slavery; History
Description: In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking Children's Books, 2004.
Table of contents: title: New guide; title: Church and the steamboat; title: First discovery; title: Across the bottomless pit; title: New master; title: Under crevice pit; title: Underground hospital; title: Stephen draws a map; title: Free at last?; title: Legacy of Stephen Bishop.